Polypharmacy in elderly Australians - can deprescribing improve health related outcomes and reduce costs?

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/GNT1113314

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Medications are often inappropriately prescribed in elderly Australians. This research investigates whether reducing certain classes of medications results in improved patient outcomes, and what the cost implications are of inappropriately prescribed medications and the costs of a service which reduces drug useage.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2017

End Date: 01-01-2020

Funding Scheme: Early Career Fellowships

Funding Amount: $344,644.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

ageing | clinical pharmacology | quality of life | quality use | therapeutics

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