Barbara Farrell, PharmD explains that sedatives are prescribed as short-term or quick fixes to immediate problems, but trouble occurs when there is no guidance for coming back off them.
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Thiago was a complex care patient at the Bruyère Saint Vincent Hospital from August 2023 to January 2024 due to a severe neurological disease that left him completely paralyzed and unable to even breathe without assistance.
Primary care physicians and community stakeholder perspectives on social prescribing
Clinical trials at Bruyère seek to close the gap between research and practice
Bruyère is helping older adults transition home, safter and faster following a hospital stay, with Carefor as the care service provider in newly expanded Bruyère@Home program.
A researcher with Bruyère Research Institute has co-authored a study into people with opioid use disorder and their access to palliative care.
Barbara Farrell, PharmD, spoke with the New York Times on polypharmacy – the use of multiple prescription drugs.
Elizabeth Payne with the Ottawa Citizen recently visited Bruyère’s John and Jennifer Ruddy Geriatric Day Hospital.
New therapies would mean change at all levels.
Palliative care researchers at Bruyère tested an accelerated five-day therapeutic approach that could help palliative patients with psychological distress.