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. 2016 May 31;16:114. doi: 10.1186/s12877-016-0289-z

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