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An older patient can end up on ten or twelve medicines, each prescribed for a good reason by a different doctor at a different time, with the combination doing more harm than any single drug does good. Deprescribing is the deliberate work of stopping or reducing the ones that no longer help, and the hope is fewer falls, fewer adverse reactions and fewer admissions. Almost all of the research puts a doctor at the centre of it. But the person who sees these patients most often is the community pharmacist, who dispenses every month and is the one person looking at the whole list at once. Whether a pharmacist in a high-street pharmacy can lead that process, and what happens to patients when they do, has never been gathered into one place, even though the trials exist. This project gathers them and produces the numbers. It suits someone curious about how pharmacy works outside a hospital, and it ends in a submitted paper.
Read up on deprescribing and what community pharmacists are allowed to do. Help run the search, screen trials against the criteria, extract the medicine and safety outcomes, and write a section of the paper.
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