WVU Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center/Charleston Division - Room 2000
Description:
Please see the objectives below for our July 25th program:
• Define Palliative Care and identify patients in which Palliative Care is appropriate
• Describe the current prevalence of potentially inappropriate medication, or polypharmacy, in patients with serious illness at the end of life
• Identify the appropriate population for deprescribing
• Explore the current literature base for desprescribing and proposed tools/algorithms
• Review the role of motivational interviewing and shared-decision making in the process of de-prescribing