🚨 Missed our Med Safety Exchange webinar? Catch up now and hear Elizabeth’s powerful story for #WorldPatientSafetyDay 2024: "Improving Diagnosis for Patient Safety" 💡 Plus, Lisa McCarthy (she/her) 🇨🇦 shares 3️⃣ tips to tackle #PrescribingCascades! 📺 Watch here: bit.ly/4egJ5mJ

Thank you @pharmacist_Lisa for an excellent and engaging presentation on #prescribingcascades with 3 clear calls to action at our Med Safety Exchange webinar today. Your passion really shines through! Learn all about deprescribing here ➡ deprescribing.org #WPSD2024

To mark #WPSD2024, here are some calls to action to address #prescribingcascades. ThinkCascades, an internationally developed short list of clinically important #prescribingcascades impacting older adults, from the iKASCADE team: tinyurl.com/2ddw8jck (2/2)

Take Home Message: ⭐️Medications (adverse effects, errors) can be the diagnosis.⭐️ Let's "get it right, make it safe" #prescribingcascades #BPMH Thank you to ISMP Canada for the chance to join as a panelist for today's Med Safety Exchange to mark #WPSD2024. (1/2)

Excited for our Lisa McCarthy (she/her) 🇨🇦 to share some calls to action in honour of #WPSD2024 at the ISMP Canada Med Safety Exchange TOMORROW at 12pm EST. "Get it right, make it safe" by thinking meds + side effects as part of the diagnosis process! #prescribingcascades Sign up below:

Only 1 more week left until the 20th EuGMS Congress! We look forward to presenting our insights at the symposium, "Defining, Creating, and Applying Learnings about Potentially Inappropriate Prescribing Cascades." #PrescribingCascades #WomensAgeLab eugms2024.com/#anchor-1

Kaley Hayes, PharmD, PhD The National Institute on Aging (NIA) Andrew Zullo, PharmD Brown Research BrownGerontology Health Services, Policy & Practice Department Brown Epidemiology Jen Croteau Arman Oganisian Brown University School of Public Health Kaley Hayes, PharmD, PhD Andrew Zullo, PharmD 👏👏👏🍾🥂🥂 Love to see the knowledge base about #prescribingcascades grow! We are here to help #prescribingcascades are fascinating with lots of layers!

Looking forward to presenting on #PrescribingCascades at the 20th EuGMS Congress! I'll be joining international partners to explore how we can apply insights on potentially inappropriate prescribing cascades at a population level.   Learn more here: eugms2024.com/#anchor-1

Gabapentin is widely prescribed for older adults, with both benefits and risks to consider, such as #PrescribingCascades. The New York Times recently released an article that explores this topic.   nytimes.com/2024/08/17/hea….

Wondering "gaba-why?" See this impt Paula Span article with US Deprescribing Research Network (USDeN)'s Mike Steinman + Matthew Growdon discussing gabapentin's 📈 + role in #prescribingcascades TAKE 🏡 POINTS: 1) Ask gaba-why before starting 2) Think #deprescribing if already onboard 🚢 Emily McDonald

Did you know a drug's adverse effect can be mistaken for a new condition, leading to a prescribing cascade? This can lead tomore medications, higher pill burden, and increased risks for adverse reactions and healthcare use. #WomensCollegeHospital #PrescribingCascades

Check out this latest study led by Denis O’Mahony looks at an analysis of sex differences in the prevalence of potentially inappropriate medications, potential prescribing omissions, & ADRs. #OlderAdults #WomensAgeLab #PrescribingCascades#PolyPharmacy   pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38979859/#full…

(1/2) Co-Director Lisa McCarthy (she/her) 🇨🇦 + Founder/Sr Advisor Barbara Farrell share tips for talking with your healthcare team about medicines in this The Associated Press article by Carla K. Johnson tinyurl.com/y8e2588s Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy Bruyère CADeN #deprescribing #prescribingcascades

Jimmy Lam Robin Conibere And then an anticholinergic to help their bladder issues…….. #prescribingcascades

Inappropriate drug prescribing for older adults, especially women, has become a growing concern. Here are some recommendations on how we can optimize drug therapy for older adults. Check out our brief to learn more.#PrescribingCascades #WomensAgeLab   womensacademics.ca/wp-content/upl…

🚨 Over half of #pharmacists were concerned that #patients were receiving #prescribingcascades that they had not identified 💊 ➡️ 💊 The factor rated most highly as a strong barrier to not identifying/managing cascades was not having access to patients' medical records 🖥️

✅️ time with Kieran Dalton ✅️ meeting Jerry Gurwitz IRL 🌟Friends of Women's College Hospital | Research Women's AgeLab Paula Rochon #iKASCADE team uniting = a highlight of a great day! 🌟 Thanks to US Deprescribing Research Network (USDeN). #USDeN24 Exciting to see the interest in #deprescribing #prescribingcascades.

More about the groundwork for this work is hot off the press today from #HSRPP2024! #prescribingcascades #HSRPP2024 academic.oup.com/ijpp/article/3… Barbara Farrell Lianne Jeffs Colleen Metge

Interested in #prescribingcascades? 📆 Join this webinar, hosted by Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, May 2 at 4pm EST. Sameera Toenjes + Barbara Farrell will share our research to support development of tools. Sign up: pharmacy.utoronto.ca/events/develop…

#HSRPP2024 co-chair 🌟 Kieran Dalton continues to rise above. Taxi to the airport for a post conference (Sat) morning flight? No need. SO FAB to see #deprescribing, #prescribingcascades + meet many new #pharmacy friends while visiting HSRPP hosted by UCC Pharmacy School!