Attitudes Toward Deprescribing Outcome Plot Tutorial
By Edie Espejo
Polypharmacy, defined as the use of multiple drugs for a single patient, can pose risk to adverse drug reactions especially for older adults with dementia. Growdon, et al. investigated the way adults 65 and older viewed their routine medication intake. The National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS) is a nationally representative survey of older adults in the United States. Using the NHATS Round 6 Medications Attitudes module, we focused on how adults with dementia subscribed to 3 main survey attitudes:
1. Believe to be taking at least 1 prescribed medication no longer needed,
2. Willing to deprescribe from medication under doctor's advice, and
3. Uncomfortable to take 5 or more pills daily.
To supplement the paper, we had to design a visualization summarizing 3 outcomes and 17 sociodemographic and clinical covariates. Undergoing what must have been 30 or more plot revisions, our paper was published along with the final plot in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society(https://agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111 /jgs.17730). To make a plot like this of your own, the most pivotal step is transforming your data.
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