A message from Dr. Dee Mangin
Our vision is of a medical system where explicit interventions for optimising medication use and prescribing and reducing the burden of treatment are part of routine preventive care — just like immunization and screening.
TaperMD was originally developed by Data Based Medicine Americas Ltd. to help optimise medication use and review and reduce the medication burden in seniors. We have used it in various long term care settings and offer it to approved settings.
With TaperMD, patients and their health care professionals have a simple but powerful tool for streamlining medication reconciliation and reviews and streamlining time spent on team communication, allowing clinician time to be spent on dcision making.
Dr Dee Mangin
Papers & Links
- Mangin et trials: Team approach to polypharmacy evaluation and reduction: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial (2021) 22:746 https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-021-05685-9
- Clinical judgments, not algorithms, are key to patient safety—an essay by David Healy and Dee Mangin
BMJ 2019; 367 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.l5777 (Published 02 October 2019) Cite this as: BMJ 2019;367:l5777 - Farrel B, Mangin D – Deprescribing Is an Essential Part of Good Prescribing American Family Physician January 1, 2019.
- Mangin D, Lawson J, Cuppage J, et al. Legacy drug-prescribing patterns in primary care. Ann Fam Med. 2018;16(6):515–520.
- Mangin, D., Bahat, G., Golomb, B.A. et al. International Group for Reducing Inappropriate Medication Use & Polypharmacy (IGRIMUP): Position Statement and 10 Recommendations for Action Drugs Aging (2018) Drugs Aging (2018) 35: 575. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40266-018-0554-2
- Optimal Prescribing to Enhance Mobility Among Seniors: A GeriMedRisk-TaperMD collaboration
- TAPER Researchers Narrow-in on Better Medication Use
- Doron Garfinkel, Dee Mangin. Addressing polypharmacy: Feasibility study of a systematic approach for discontinuation of multiple medications in older adults Arch Intern Med. 2010 Oct 11;170(18):1648-54. doi: 10.1001/archinternmed.2010.355.