Jacqueline Martin-Kerry

Sep 6, 2024 | agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Jacqueline Martin-Kerry |Sion Scott |Jo Taylor |David Wright

INTRODUCTION The use of core outcome sets (COS) by trials is widely accepted as best practice, aiming to improve research efficiency by enabling comparison and aggregation of results across trials for specific clinical areas.1 A COS is an agreed minimum set of standardized outcomes that should be reported in all trials for a specific clinical area.1 A COS should include only fundamental outcomes, that is, core to evaluating a treatment or intervention, rather than every relevant or important...

Apr 5, 2024 | wiredspace.wits.ac.za | Jacqueline Martin-Kerry |Jo Taylor |Sion Scott |Martyn Patel

AbstractBackground: Half of older people are prescribed unnecessary/inappropriate medications that are not routinely deprescribedin hospital hence there is a need for deprescribing trials. We aimed to develop a Core Outcome Set (COS) for deprescribingtrials for older people under the care of a geriatrician during hospital admission. Methods: We developed a list of potentially relevant outcomes from the literature.