Patient-centred Deprescribing of Psychotropic, Sedative and Anticholinergic Medication in Elderly Patients With Polypharmacy

"The PARTNER intervention includes the following components:~1. Education for health care professionals~ A) written manual on deprescribing PSA-PIM, which consists of brief information and more detailed explanations;~ B) access to digital instructional videos/podcasts that address potential problems in deprescribing and provide possible solutions;~ C) checklist for identification of drug-related problems for pharmacists;~ D) tapering support tool to facilitate the selection of tapering schemes;~ E) divisibility list for PSA-PIM to support the implementation of tapering schemes;~ F) empowerment brochures for patients each focussing on one PSA-PIM subgroup~2. Interprofessional workshop and case conference for GPs and pharmacists~3. Pharmacy visit (brown bag/medication review) including patient empowerment~4. GP practice visit including shared decision making (SDM)"

The control intervention only comprises a pharmacy visit with brown bag review.