Table 1.

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

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

^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