Funding

Dr E Reeve is funded by a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Investigator Grant (1195460). Associate Professor D Gnjidic is supported by The University of Sydney Thompson Fellowship. The funding sources were not involved in study design; in the collection, analysis and interpretation of data; in the writing of the manuscript; and in the decision to submit the article for publication.

Conflict of interest

Dr Reeve receives royalties from UpToDate (Wolters Kluwer) for writing a chapter on deprescribing.

Authors contributions

AVL, CRS and DG conceived the letter and wrote the first draft of the manuscript. ER and JD critically revised subsequent drafts for important intellectual content. All authors approved the manuscript and agree to be accountable for its content.

Consent (participation & publication)

Not applicable.

Data availability

Data sharing is not applicable to this article, as no datasets were generated or analysed during the current study.

Code availability

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Ethics approval

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