Deprescribing: What About Vitamins, Minerals, and Other Nutritional Supplements?

One recommendation during the pandemic was to review and discontinue any medications that were not essential in long-term care (LTC) facilities. On the practical level, this helped reduce staff time for medication passes and decreased potential COVID-19 transmission between staff and residents; but well before the pandemic, clinicians recognized that deprescribing had other benefits, including reducing unwanted side effects and drug interactions. But what about vitamins and supplements? Should these also be deprescribed?