Public Health in Pharmacy Practice: a Casebook 2nd Edition: Deprescribing in Palliative Care

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Public Health in Pharmacy Practice: a Casebook 2nd Edition

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What This Module Covers

Palliative Care - Foundations
Knowledge Translation
Polypharmacy and Deprescribing
Case - Patient Fr
Applying the Framework to Fr
Knowledge Translation in Fr's Context
High-yield Exam Facts

Key Terms

Palliative care Aims to reduce suffering in individuals with chronic or life-limiting illness by improving quality of life (QoL) for bot

Hospice A subdomain of palliative care; specifically supports the dying person in achieving peace, comfort, and death with digni

Three named barriers (know all three) 1. Uncertainty or poor experience with palliative care or end-of-life discussions.

Knowledge translation (KT) Encompasses knowledge transfer and exchange; refers to processes and frameworks applied to synthesize evidence from rese

Definition A systematic approach to identify and discontinue medications where harm outweighs benefit within the context of an indi