Objectives

After participating in this educational activity, attendees should be able to:

1. Define “potentially inappropriate medication” and list resources to identify those medications
2. Define specific terminology including, “deprescribing,” “time to benefit,” and “time to harm”
3. Describe key components of a successful deprescribing process

Faculty

Megan Carr, Pharm D, BCPS, BCGP

Geriatric Clinical Pharmacy Specialist

Acute Care for the Elderly (ACE) Unit Pharmacist

Baystate Medical Center

759 Chestnut St, Springfield, MA 01199

Faculty Disclosure

The design and content of Baystate Continuing Interprofessional Education ( CE ) activities support quality improvement in healthcare and provide fair and balanced views of therapeutic options.  Faculty or planner conflicts of interest are resolved before the educational activity.

None of the members of the faculty and planning committee for this educational event have commercial relationships with any entity producing, marketing, re-selling or distributing health care goods and services consumed by or used on patients.