Ephor is the Expertisecentre PHarmacotherapy in Old persons.
The mission of Ephor is to improve appropriate prescribing to older patients.
Ephor investigates efficient methods for optimizing polyfarmacy with the digital STRIP-assistant. This instrument will be studied on an European level (OPERAM study).
Ephor has made several evidence-based medicines reports for the treatment of frail patients.
Ephor has developed a polypharmacy module in the e-learning method Pscribe for teaching.
The website of Ephor contains several products, articles, abstracts, posters etc. These are all free to download.
Ephor is made possible bij a grant from ZonMw (projectnr:11.31040.01)
The coreteam of Ephor consists of dr. Paul A.F. Jansen, head managementteam, dr. Clara Drenth-van Maanen, prof. dr. Toine Egberts, dr. K. Keijsers, dr. Wilma Knol, dr. Rob van Marum, dr. E. van Poelgeest, prof. dr. Eric van Roon and dr. I. Wilting.