inappropriate prescribing
Impact of medication reviews on inappropriate prescribing in aged care
... of inappropriate prescribing at all three time points between the old and new RMMR ...one inappropriate rating at ...and inappropriate prescribing despite the development and ...
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Detection of potentially inappropriate prescribing in the very old: cross-sectional analysis of the data from the BELFRAIL observational cohort study
... of inappropriate medi- cations, the START tool allows for the detection of po- tentially inappropriate drug ...potentially inappropriate prescribing de- tected by screening tools might differ ...
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Potentially inappropriate prescribing in dementia: a state-of-the-art review since 2007
... Potentially inappropriate prescribing is common in people living with dementia, with PIPs reported related to drugs used to manage dementia symptoms but also to drugs used to treat ...
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Development and use of a computer program to detect potentially inappropriate prescribing in older adults residing in Canadian long-term care facilities
... potential inappropriate prescriptions in our study involved prescription of non-steroidal anti-in- flammatory drugs and psychotropic ...an inappropriate drug in the community and institutions ...why ...
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Identifying potentially inappropriate prescribing in older people with dementia : a systematic review
... and inappropriate prescribing (The Appendix Table 3 documents the full search strategy for Medline, which was then adapted as appropriate for the other ...
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A retrospective comparison of inappropriate prescribing of psychotropics in three Norwegian nursing homes in 2000 and 2016 with prescribing quality indicators
... for inappropriate prescribing in the present decade could be related to several ...reduced prescribing of antipsychotics has been mentioned ...perspective prescribing to nursing home patients ...
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<p>Prevalence, Determinants And Associated Risk Of Potentially Inappropriate Prescribing For Older Adults In Qatar: A National Retrospective Study</p>
... Though PIP can be entirely appropriate in several cases amongst the young adult population, safe and effective prescribing in the elderly is challenging. This is mainly because of the age-related ...
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Potentially inappropriate prescribing among older people in the United Kingdom
... tially inappropriate prescribing (PIP) in older people, has been widely validated [6,7], but has some limitations; for example, approximately 50% of the Beers drugs are unavailable in European countries ...
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Inappropriate prescribing to the oldest old patients admitted to hospital: prevalence, most frequently used medicines, and associated factors
... This study also has some limitations. Firstly, the Beers’ criteria version 2003 was used, and currently there is a new one [33] which only appeared once the study was initiated. A new version of the STOPP/START criteria ...
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Systems to identify potentially inappropriate prescribing in people with advanced dementia: a systematic review
... potentially inappropriate prescribing in older adults, these cannot be readily applied to the case of ad- vanced dementia, where there are disease-specific con- cerns and a palliative approach is ...
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A set of systematic reviews to help reduce inappropriate prescribing to older people: study protocol
... Older people comprise the great majority of consumers of drugs used in the treatment of chronic diseases, yet there has been little previous work to systematically assess the research evidence for usage in this ...
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Inappropriate prescribing in the hospitalized elderly patient: Defining the problem, evaluation tools, and possible solutions
... inappropriate prescribing, the major impact of advanced age lies in the context of altered pharmacokinetics (drug absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion), altered pharmacodynamics (physiological ...
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Magnitude of potentially inappropriate prescribing in Germany among older patients with generalized anxiety disorder
... potentially inappropriate for use in the elderly, due in part to an increased risk of falls, hip fractures, drug- induced disorders of cognition, and motor vehicle acci- dents ...tially inappropriate in ...
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Can patient safety be improved by reducing the volume of “inappropriate prescribing tasks” handed over to out-of-hours junior doctors?
... “anticoagulation prescribing task” (requesting warfarin dosing or continuing a therapeutic Tinzaparin pre- scription), a “drug chart rewrite task”, “other inappropriate prescribing task” or an ...
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Effectiveness and safety of vitamin K antagonists and new anticoagulants in the prevention of thromboembolism in atrial fibrillation in older adults – a systematic review of reviews and the development of recommendations to reduce inappropriate prescribing
... and inappropriate prescribing, we used the evidence identified for the development of rec- ommendations as to when and which anticoagulants should be preferred or discontinued in older ...
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Potentially inappropriate prescribing among older people in the United Kingdom
... tially inappropriate prescribing (PIP) in older people, has been widely validated [6,7], but has some limitations; for example, approximately 50% of the Beers drugs are unavailable in European countries ...
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Correction for potentially inappropriate prescribing can increase specificity when using drug prescriptions as an adjunct to diagnostic codes to assess comorbidities in older patients
... for inappropriate prescribing does in effect cause a loss in diagnoses, but it should be considered that the majority of such prescriptions appear to be inappropriate and thus should not have been ...
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Effectiveness and safety of dipeptidyl peptidase 4 inhibitors in the management of type 2 diabetes in older adults: a systematic review and development of recommendations to reduce inappropriate prescribing
... Further studies are needed that evaluate the risks and benefits of DPP-4 inhibitors for the management of type 2 diabetes mellitus in older adults, using clinically relevant outcomes and[r] ...
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Effectiveness and safety of beta blockers in the management of hypertension in older adults: a systematic review to help reduce inappropriate prescribing
... Nevertheless, to the best of our knowledge, so far no systematic review has analysed the specific evidence on the use of beta blockers for the management of hyper- tension in aged populations. This systematic review aims ...
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Prevalence of potentially inappropriate prescribing and prescribing omissions in older Irish adults: findings from The Irish LongituDinal Study on Ageing study (TILDA)
... The term ‘ potentially ’ is used as there is often limited evidence to support the inclusion of particular medications in lists of drugs to avoid in particular populations. However, their use or lack thereof may be ...
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