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Barriers and facilitators to deprescribing in primary care: a systematic review

Alison Jayne Doherty, Paul Boland, Janet Reed, Andrew J Clegg, Anne-Marie Stephani, Nefyn Howard Williams, Beth Shaw, Lynn Hedgecoe, Ruaraidh Hill and Lauren Walker
BJGP Open 2020; 4 (3): bjgpopen20X101096. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgpopen20X101096
Alison Jayne Doherty
1 Faculty of Health & Wellbeing, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK
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3 Health Services Research, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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vol. 4 no. 3 bjgpopen20X101096
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgpopen20X101096
PubMed 
32723784

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Royal College of General Practitioners
History 
  • Received October 2, 2019
  • Accepted November 8, 2019
  • Published online August 25, 2020.

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  1. Alison Jayne Doherty1,*,
  2. Paul Boland1,
  3. Janet Reed1,
  4. Andrew J Clegg1,
  5. Anne-Marie Stephani2,
  6. Nefyn Howard Williams3,
  7. Beth Shaw4,
  8. Lynn Hedgecoe5,
  9. Ruaraidh Hill3 and
  10. Lauren Walker5
  1. 1 Faculty of Health & Wellbeing, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK
  2. 2 University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK
  3. 3 Health Services Research, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
  4. 4 Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, US
  5. 5 University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
  1. ↵ *For correspondence:
    Alison Jayne Doherty, adoherty7{at}uclan.ac.uk
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