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What role can policy play
in implementing deprescribing initiatives?
Dr Justin Turner, BPharm, MClinPharm, PhD
Senior Advisor, Science Strategy, Canadian Deprescribing Network
Postdoctoral Fellow, Université de Montréal
Montréal, Canada
#deRx2018
Session resources available at deprescribing.org/resources
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Learning Objectives
1. To gain a more detailed understanding of the challenges and opportunities related to the use of policy to support the implementation of deprescribing guidelines
2. To generate new ideas that could be used to inform participant plans to connect with and influence policy makers
Session resources available at deprescribing.org/resources
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Why focus on policy?
Tannenbaum C, Farrell B, Shaw J, Morgan S, Trimble J, Currie J, et al. An Ecological Approach to Reducing Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use: Canadian Deprescribing Network. Canadian journal on aging. 2017;36(1):97-107.
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Pop quiz!
TASK: “If you were the health minister, what could you do to facilitate deprescribing of unnecessary and inappropriate medications?”
Time: 2 minutes
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Potential Drug Policy Leavers
• Withdraw from market *
• Making prescribing more difficult
• Limiting use / special authorisation *
• Restrict to prescriber group
• Re-scheduling *
• Dose restriction
• Quantity restriction
• De-listing / increase patient expense *
• Monitor use *
• Pay doctors to review medications*
• Public education programs *
* = examples in this presentation
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Which policies can reduce benzodiazepines?
Which colour represents: 1. Prescriber monitoring 2. Prescriber payments 3. Public Awareness 4. Restricting coverage 5. Other
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Evidence-Based Deprescribing Guidelines
• Where do Evidence-Based Deprescribing Guidelines fit in this list?
• more on that later, first lets see how well the suggested policy's works…
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Withdraw from market
• In 2004, Rofecoxib was withdrawn from the market
IMS National Prescription Audit and Wolters Kluwer Pharmaceutical Audit Suite Total Rx’s 2002-2011
Patients want alternatives
Celecoxib Ibuprofen Rofecoxib Naproxen Meloxicam
What happened?
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Limiting Use
No Policy restricting PPI prescribing
Policy restricting PPI prescribing
What happened?
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Rescheduling
2
Schaffer AL et al JAMA Int Med 2016;176(8):1223
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Rescheduling of Alprazolam
2
Schaffer AL et al JAMA Int Med 2016;176(8):1223
22% What happened?
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Beware of unintended consequences
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Alprazolam: Unintended consequences
• 22% in alprazolam prescribing
• 50% in poison center calls
BUT, at what cost?
• 216% other benzodiazepines;
• 142% antidepressants
• 129% antipsychotics
• Overdose deaths involving 1 or more benzodiazepines increased from 42.2% to 52.5% (2009 – 2015)
2
Schaffer AL et al JAMA Int Med 2016;176(8):1223 Lloyd B et al Int J Drug Pol 2017;39:138
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Delisting
Sketris IS, et al. The effect of deinsuring chlorpropamide on the prescribing of oral antihyperglycemics for Nova Scotia Seniors' Pharmacare beneficiaries. Pharmacotherapy. 2004;24(6):784-91
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Delisting
Sketris IS, et al. The effect of deinsuring chlorpropamide on the prescribing of oral antihyperglycemics for Nova Scotia Seniors' Pharmacare beneficiaries. Pharmacotherapy. 2004;24(6):784-91
Glyburide was the most popular replacement medication despite also being inappropriate
What happened?
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Delisting
Chen H et al. The impact of Medicare Part D on psychotropic utilization and financial burden for community-based seniors. Psychiatr Serv. 2008;59(10):1191-7.
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Delisting: Medicare Part D and benzodiazepines
Chen H et al. Psychiatr Serv. 2008;59(10):1191-7. Briesacher BA, et al. Medicare part D's exclusion of benzodiazepines and fracture risk in nursing homes. Arch Intern Med. 2010;170(8):693-8
5%, briefly
hip fractures doubled
What happened?
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Monitoring
• Triplicate Prescription Program implementation
Wagner AK, et al. Effects of state surveillance on new post-hospitalization benzodiazepine use. Int J Qual Health Care. 2003;15(5):423-31.
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Monitoring
• Triplicate Prescription Program implementation
53%♀
58%♂
Proportion of patients with new benzodiazepine prescription on hospital discharge
What happened?
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Pay-for-Performance
Rat C, et al. Did the new French pay-for-performance system modify benzodiazepine prescribing practices? BMC Health Serv Res. 2014;14:301.
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Pay-for-Performance
• Quality improvement program
• 4 priorities: practice organization, chronic disease management, prevention, prescribing
• Total incentive payment of €5000 (€490 for prescribing component)
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Pay-for-Performance
1.4% new prescriptions
3.6% treatment >12 weeks
What happened?
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Public Education
Dollman WB, et al. Achieving a sustained reduction in benzodiazepine use through implementation of an area-wide multi-strategic approach. J Clin Pharm Ther. 2005;30(5):425-32.
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Public Education
19.1% What happened?
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Thinking outside the box!
Eriksen SI, Bjerrum L. Reducing Prescriptions of Long-Acting Benzodiazepine Drugs in Denmark: A Descriptive Analysis of Nationwide Prescriptions during a 10-Year Period. Basic Clin Pharmacol Toxicol. 2015;116(6):499-502.
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Danish Drivers Licence
• The policy: rules for renewal of drivers’ licences
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Danish Drivers Licence
• So what happened?
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Danish Drivers Licence
54% long
acting
35% short
acting
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Rapid Realist Review
“What works,
for whom,
under what circumstances?”
Saul JE, Willis CD, Bitz J, Best A. A time-responsive tool for informing policy making: rapid realist review. Implementation science : IS. 2013;8(1):103.
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Global Deprescribing Policies
• Reducing benzodiazepines and Z-drugs?
• What policies work and in whom?
• What were the mechanisms?
• What were the influences of context?
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Possible Policy Mechanisms
Michie S et al. The behaviour change wheel: a new method for characterising and designing behaviour change interventions. Implementation science : IS. 2011;6(1):42.
Michie et al (2011). The behavior change wheel: A new method for characterizing and designing behavior change interventions. Implementation Science 6:42.
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Pay-for-Performance
• Why?
• Mechanism: Fiscal
• Contexts: highly paid physicians, prescribing patterns, other competing practice priorities
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Medicare Part D
• Why?
• Mechanism: Legislation + Fiscal measures
• Contexts: Low income population versus multiple payment sources, prescribing practices, and patient expectations
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Danish Drivers Licence
• Why?
• Mechanism: Legislation and Regulation + Guidelines, Communication (engaging both physicians and patients)
• Contexts: single payer health system, population driven toward independence (driving), political will
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Which Policies Provided Positive Outcomes?
• Withdraw from market *
• Making prescribing more difficult
• Limiting use / special authorisation *
• Restrict to prescriber group
• Re-scheduling *
• Dose restriction
• Quantity restriction
• De-listing / increase patient expense *
• Monitor use *
• Pay doctors to review medications*
• Public education programs *
• Thinking outside the box: Danish Drivers License
?
??
?
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Policies to reduce benzodiazepine use
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Regulation and Evidence-Based Deprescribing Guidelines
TASK: “How can we
facilitate implementation of
evidence-based deprescribing guidelines
using regulation?”
Time: 2 minutes
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Education
• Include deprescribing as a mandatory component for all national guidelines
• Enforce deprescribing content in all undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing professional education
•
•
Develop a deprescribing competency framework for professional certification programs (e.g. Gerontological Nursing Certification) Include how to start and stop a medication in Product Information
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Workflow Enhancement
• Mandate Electronic Medical Record Software to include easy access to deprescribing algorithms
• Mandate Pharmacy Dispense software to include the steps of deprescribing algorithms as part of the workflow
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Promote Clinical Review
• Professional body audit and feedback
• Academic Detailing
• Fund collaboration between health care providers
• Medication reviews in community pharmacies
• Pharmaceutical opinions
• Pharmacists in family medicine clinics
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Influencing Decision Makers
TASK: “How can we influence decision makers to ensure there is
implementation of deprescribing guidelines?”
Time: 2 minutes
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Influencing Decision Makers
• This is up for discussion… I don’t have absolute answers!
• Improving patient outcomes
• Reducing adverse drug events
• Reducing medication cost
• Reducing hospitalisations and burden on health system
• Saving money
• Dependent on the political cycle
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Summary
• Policy interventions seem to perform poorly when other contextual influences not considered (e.g. other payment sources, competing practice priorities, poor knowledge, availability of alternatives)
• Regulatory change with health care provider and patient education and engagement worked in Denmark (combined mechanisms)
• Policies that target valued privileges are more effective
• Strategies exist beyond de-listing
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Actionable Steps
• What can you do?
• The patient must be at the centre of any policy change
• Ensure appropriate alternatives are available
• Regulation involving professional bodies may improve deprescribing guideline implementation
• Combined mechanisms may be required • Change in public opinion • Change in professional skills • Improved access to deprescribing guidelines
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Evidence Based Deprescribing Guideline Symposium 2018
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Evidence-based Pharmaceutical Opinion