Polypharmacy, Appropriate Prescribing, and Deprescribing
A Clinician’s Guide
- 1st Edition - October 20, 2026
- Latest edition
- Authors: Gregory J. Hughes, Demetra Antimisiaris
- Language: English
Medication use is at an all-time high, especially in aging populations, and medication harm is one of the few preventable causes of harm in medicine. Polypharmacy, Appropriate Pr… Read more
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Description
Description
Medication use is at an all-time high, especially in aging populations, and medication harm is one of the few preventable causes of harm in medicine. Polypharmacy, Appropriate Prescribing, and Deprescribing: A Clinician’s Guide is a first-of-its kind resource that provides clinicians and trainees with current, authoritative guidance and skill-building insights on how and when to use the right medications, and how and when medications should be stopped. This timely, instructive text is a must-have reference for a wide variety of healthcare practitioners and is particularly useful in the outpatient office where the majority of chronic medication prescribing and reviewing takes place. The text is an essential educational resource now and in the future as the burden of polypharmacy continues to expand globally.
Key features
Key features
- Addresses polypharmacy not only in geriatric patients, but across the lifespan, including younger adults, patients with intellectual and developmental disabilities, and those with life-limiting conditions
- Approaches polypharmacy from a unique, systems- and process-based approach, covering each system’s polypharmacy nuances in addition to evidence-based polypharmacy criteria, and teaching skills that are repeatable throughout different clinical disciplines and systems of the body
- Contains decision-making algorithms in each systems-based chapter, including polypharmacy related to CNS, cardiovascular, endocrine and metabolic, hematology/oncology, and infectious disease, as well as polypharmacy in palliative care
- Includes most common scenarios encountered in each body system, covering how to work through classic examples of the polypharmacy problems that occur in that system. These examples are individually valuable because of their commonality, but also reinforce a structured approach toward any other polypharmacy problem
- Discusses practical, real-world issues such as how to manage polypharmacy in short clinical visits, and future directions in deprescribing and medication optimization
- An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud. Additional digital ancillary content may publish up to 6 weeks following the publication date
Readership
Readership
Internal Medicine, family medicine, geriatrics
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: October 20, 2026
- Language: English
About the authors
About the authors
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Gregory J. Hughes
Gregory J. Hughes, PharmD, BCPS, BCGP is an Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Clinical Health Professions at St. John's University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. Dr. Hughes also serves as a Clinical Pharmacy Preceptor in the Department of General Internal Medicine at North Shore University Hospital where he provides pharmacotherapy expertise to the Internal Medicine service. There he is involved in the education of physicians, pharmacists, and students. Prior to this appointment, Dr. Hughes completed a post-graduate Pharmacy Practice Residency at the St. Louis VA Medical Center and served as a Clinical Instructor at the St. Louis College of Pharmacy.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Clinical Health Professions at St. John's University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Director of Co-Curricula at St. John's University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. Clinical Pharmacy Preceptor in the Department of General Internal Medicine at North Shore University Hospital., USADA
Demetra Antimisiaris
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Department of Health Management & Systems Sciences, Director, Frazier Polypharmacy and Medication Management Program, Assistant Dean, Continuing Medical Education and Professional Development, University of Louisville Schools of Medicine and Public Health, USA