A population-level retrospective cohort study found that common #medications can trigger #PrescribingCascades in #OlderAdults, leading to additional #drugs for #SideEffects and increasing medication-related #harm and healthcare costs.
#Polypharmacy
#Polypharmacy
Prescribing cascades: Study identifies potentially harmful drug combinations prescribed to older adults – BioNews Central
A population-level retrospective cohort study found that common medications can trigger prescribing cascades in older adults, leading to additional drugs for side effects and increasing medication-related harm and healthcare costs. ...
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September 11, 2026 at 2:08 AM
A population-level retrospective cohort study found that common #medications can trigger #PrescribingCascades in #OlderAdults, leading to additional #drugs for #SideEffects and increasing medication-related #harm and healthcare costs.
#Polypharmacy
#Polypharmacy
🆕 Cascade-Watch: A quality improvement approach to identifying and mitigating #PrescribingCascades in long-term care: utppublishing.com/doi/10.3138/...
Examines the feasibility of using medication order sequencing to flag potential prescribing cascades in LTC
#medsafety @amtejani.bsky.social
Examines the feasibility of using medication order sequencing to flag potential prescribing cascades in LTC
#medsafety @amtejani.bsky.social
July 17, 2026 at 6:01 PM
🆕 Cascade-Watch: A quality improvement approach to identifying and mitigating #PrescribingCascades in long-term care: utppublishing.com/doi/10.3138/...
Examines the feasibility of using medication order sequencing to flag potential prescribing cascades in LTC
#medsafety @amtejani.bsky.social
Examines the feasibility of using medication order sequencing to flag potential prescribing cascades in LTC
#medsafety @amtejani.bsky.social
🚨💊 Extremely important medication prescription drug side effects! Prescribing Cascades! #PrescribingCascades #Minterland 💕
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The drug side effect that is quietly happening in doctor's offices every day
YouTube video by AgeWellwithDrSteph
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June 3, 2026 at 9:20 PM
🚨💊 Extremely important medication prescription drug side effects! Prescribing Cascades! #PrescribingCascades #Minterland 💕
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This was such fun! Honored to be an international guest on the @prescqipp.info podcast hosted by @jonathanunderhill.pharmsky.app.
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##prescribingcascades
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Our next #TalkingMeds podcast drops tomorrow, 19 Sept!
Join @jonathanunderhill.pharmsky.app as he talks to University of Toronto Professor @lisamccarthy.bsky.social about deprescribing lessons we can learn from Canada.
Listen here: www.prescqipp.info/our-resource...
@deprescribing.bsky.social
Join @jonathanunderhill.pharmsky.app as he talks to University of Toronto Professor @lisamccarthy.bsky.social about deprescribing lessons we can learn from Canada.
Listen here: www.prescqipp.info/our-resource...
@deprescribing.bsky.social
September 19, 2025 at 11:07 PM
This was such fun! Honored to be an international guest on the @prescqipp.info podcast hosted by @jonathanunderhill.pharmsky.app.
Check it out and give them a follow!
#deprescribing
##prescribingcascades
@deprescribing.bsky.social
@caden-recad.bsky.social
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#deprescribing
##prescribingcascades
@deprescribing.bsky.social
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In this study, prescribing cascades were identified in 12.4% of older patients admitted to hospital. #geriatrics #prescribingcascades link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Detection of Potential Prescribing Cascades in Multimorbid Older Patients Hospitalised with Acute Illness—An Observational Prospective Prevalence Study - Drugs & Aging
Background Prescribing cascades occur when a new drug is prescribed to treat an adverse drug event caused by an existing medication, resulting in unnecessary, or potentially hazardous additional drugs...
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June 12, 2025 at 11:28 PM
In this study, prescribing cascades were identified in 12.4% of older patients admitted to hospital. #geriatrics #prescribingcascades link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Older adults in lower socioeconomic status groups "based on income or educational attainment more frequently experienced polypharmacy or co-prescribing suggesting a prescribing cascade than those in higher SES groups"
#prescribingcascades #polypharmacy
#prescribingcascades #polypharmacy
How do factors such as age, sex, & gender impact #polypharmacy & prescribing cascades?
Is gender data consistently reported across large patient databases?
How do these factors impact how we #deprescribe?
Read more here:
agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Is gender data consistently reported across large patient databases?
How do these factors impact how we #deprescribe?
Read more here:
agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
January 2, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Older adults in lower socioeconomic status groups "based on income or educational attainment more frequently experienced polypharmacy or co-prescribing suggesting a prescribing cascade than those in higher SES groups"
#prescribingcascades #polypharmacy
#prescribingcascades #polypharmacy