Deprescribe
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To cease to prescribe (a medicine). transitive
"Estimates of effect size direction, while not attributable to a specific intervention or intervention type, were mixed with 47 % of trials being positive, 41 % negative, and 12 % undetermined, suggesting a lack of clarity regarding how to best deprescribe benzodiazepines and Z-drugs."
Example
More examples"Estimates of effect size direction, while not attributable to a specific intervention or intervention type, were mixed with 47 % of trials being positive, 41 % negative, and 12 % undetermined, suggesting a lack of clarity regarding how to best deprescribe benzodiazepines and Z-drugs."
Etymology
From de- + prescribe.
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