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Gabapentinoids – Gabapentin and Pregabalin: Tasce Bongiovanni, Donovan Maust and Nisha Iyer

GeriPal

In 2002, 1% of adults were taking gabapentinoids (gabapentin and or pregabalin). I also heard that if you look at all individuals in the US, about 4% of individuals are taking one of the gabapentinoids, 10% over 65. By 2015 that number increased to 4% of US adults. Nisha: Both of them are generic, yeah. Tasce: Lots of reasons.

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How to discuss stopping screening: Mara Schonberg

GeriPal

So when I got to a residency and at that point I was in residency 1999 to 2002 and we were being taught to screen everyone no matter what. So that would be palatable to the community that I could look at, whether we were over-screening those 80 and older. And so we recruited 546 women and they were from 137 different PCPs.