deprescribing
C2CEFR level
75/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
The planned and supervised process of reducing or stopping medicines that may no longer be of benefit or may be causing harm.
We agreed on a deprescribing plan to taper her long-standing proton pump inhibitor over several weeks.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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