Ep. 7: Prescribing Cascades Among Older Community-Dwelling Adults feat. Ann Sinéad Doherty, PhD, and Emma Wallace, PhD (Vol. 23 Iss. 4)

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Ep. 7: Prescribing Cascades Among Older Community-Dwelling Adults feat. Ann Sinéad Doherty, PhD, and Emma Wallace, PhD (Vol. 23 Iss. 4)

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In this episode, researchers Ann Sinéad Doherty, PhD, and Emma Wallace, PhD discuss their recently published study, “Prescribing Cascades Among Older Community-Dwelling Adults: Application of Prescription Sequence Symmetry Analysis to a National Database in Ireland.” The study identified five potential prescribing cascades in Ireland’s national population of older adults, highlighting yet another contributor to potentially inappropriate prescribing.

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