TY - JOUR T1 - Deprescribing in nursing homes is safe and should be pursued JF - Evidence Based Nursing JO - Evid Based Nurs DO - 10.1136/eb-2018-102885 SP - ebnurs-2018-102885 AU - Eline Tommelein Y1 - 2018/03/02 UR - http://ebn.bmj.com/content/early/2018/03/01/eb-2018-102885.abstract N2 - Commentary on: Wouters H, Scheper J, Koning H, et al. Discontinuing inappropriate medication use in nursing home residents: a cluster randomized controlled trial. Ann Intern Med 2017;167:609–617.Deprescribing in nursing homes is more effective when a true multidisciplinary panel and patients are involved. This also includes on-site staff and family or carers.Research about how often a medication review cycle should be performed is still lacking.Polypharmacy and associated inappropriate medication (IM) use is a well-known problem in nursing home patients.1 The evidence that the discontinuation of specific medications (deprescribing) in older patients does not worsen outcomes and decreases adverse drug events and medication costs is growing. Research considering deprescribing of antihypertensives, antipsychotics and antidepressants has been performed.2 3 However, results … ER -