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Table 1 Electronic database search terms used to find articles reporting on systems to identify potentially inappropriate prescribing in people with advanced dementia

From: Systems to identify potentially inappropriate prescribing in people with advanced dementia: a systematic review

Parsons et al. (2010) [9] search terms:

medication(s)

medicine(s)’

discontinue,

discontinuation

withhold(ing)

withheld

withdraw

withdraw(al)

dementia

severe dementia

end of life

palliative care

nursing home

Terms recommended by the Australian online palliative care knowledge network, CareSearch [30] were further included:

Inappropriate prescri*

inappropriate med*

medication management

medication review

medic* of risk

terminal care

hospices

hospice patients

hospice care

deprescrib*α

prescribing patterns

polypharmacy

  1. αThe term “deprescribing” has been coined to describe the process of tapering or withdrawing drugs with the goal of managing polypharmacy and improving outcomes [31], *Truncation used to ensure all variations and different spelling of words were retrieved