Deprescribing in Primary Care in Singapore: Barriers and Facilitators.

To describe the prevalence of potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs) in older patients (65 years of age and older) in three selected polyclinics (PCs) and gather the perceptions of the health care providers in these PCs on the barriers and facilitators of deprescribing in their practice. To analyze the patients' age, number of active chronic diseases, and number of medicines, and investigate if they could influence the presence of PIMs. The study has two separate parts: The first part is a retrospective cross-sectional data collection of prescriptions; the second part is a prospective cross-sectional analysis of questionnaires by health care providers.

Pharmacist review and its impact on Singapore nursing homes.

Introduction: There is a high prevalence of polypharmacy and inappropriate medication use in Singapore nursing homes. This study primarily explored the benefits of pharmacist reviews in local nursing homes. The secondary aims were to review the potential cost savings gained from following the pharmacists' recommendations and to identify the possible risks associated with polypharmacy and inappropriate medication use.

Identifying factors associated with diagnostic concordance/discordance in oral lichen planus.

Purpose: To identify factors associated with concordance and discordance between clinical and histopathologic diagnoses of oral lichen planus lesions.

Materials And Methods: A retrospective analysis was conducted on all study cases derived from archival oral pathology reports generated from all cases of oral lichen planus accessioned by the Faculty of Dentistry, University of Malaya. These study cases were diagnosed from January 1980 through December 2010.