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Table 2 Physician awareness, knowledge, and training on deprescribing and deprescribing tools (n = 70)

From: Evaluation of physicians’ knowledge of deprescribing, deprescribing tools and assessment of factors affecting deprescribing process

Variables

Frequency (%)

Awareness of the term “deprescribing

 Yes

56 ( 80.0)

 No

14 ( 20.0)

Knowledge of order of deprescribing steps

 

 Good knowledge

53 (75.7)

 Poor knowledge

17 (24.3)

Previous training on deprescribing

 Yes

15 (21.4)

 No

55 (78.6)

# Place/sources of previous training on deprescribing (n = 22)

 Geriatric courses

1 (4.5)

 Online course

3 (13.6)

 Personal study

8 (36.4)

 Postgraduate update courses/ training

4 (18.2)

 Seminars

5 (22.7)

 Undergraduate course

1 (4.5)

Awareness of deprescribing tools

 Yes

16 (22.9)

 No

54 ( 77.1)

#List of known deprescribing tools ( n = 16)

 Beers’ criteria

5 (31.3)

 STOPP /START

5 (31.3)

 Beers criteria and STOPP /START

6 (37.5)

Frequency of use of specific deprescribing tools

Beers criteria

 

 Often use

3 (4.3)

 Sometime use

5 ( 7.1)

 Rarely use

2 (2.9)

 Know of but never use

1 (1.4)

 Never heard of

59 (84.2)

STOPP/START criteria

 Often use

3 (4.3)

 Sometime use

3 (4.3)

 Rarely use

2 (2.9)

 Know of but never use

3 (4.3)

 Never heard of

59 (84.2)

  1. # = multiple response variable