Potentially Inappropriate Medication
Informal caregivers’ perspectives on health of and (potentially inappropriate) medication for (relatively) independent oldest-old people – a qualitative interview study
... patients’ medication, their opinion on the patients’ (potentially inappropriate) medication and the communication processes between patients, informal caregivers and ...patients’ ...
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Potentially Inappropriate Medication Utilization in the Emergency Department Visits by Older Adults: Analysis From a Nationally Representative Sample
... adverse medication events and potentially inappropriate medication (PIM) use in older adults, who comprise the largest and fastest growing age group of ED ...of inappropriate ...
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<p>Prevalence Of Potentially Inappropriate Medication In The Older Adult Population Within Primary Care In Portugal: A Nationwide Cross-Sectional Study</p>
... Results: Potentially inappropriate medication was present in ...having potentially inappropriate medication increased signi fi cantly with being female ...Conclusion: ...
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Polypharmacy leads to increased prevalence of potentially inappropriate medication in the Indonesian geriatric population visiting primary care facilities
... Background: The geriatric population is particularly vulnerable to being prescribed potentially inappropriate medication (PIM); however, the prevalence of this occurrence remains poorly investigated ...
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Potentially inappropriate medication use in nursing homes: an observational study using the NORGEP-NH criteria
... The participants in our study constitute the part of the nursing home population in need of antibiotic or intravenous fluid therapy during the study period. Data were collected from nursing home residents treated with ...
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Prescription of potentially inappropriate medication in older persons in Switzerland: does the dispensing channel make a difference?
... the medication level may be helpful to minimize the effect of patient characteristics and the number and coordination of health care providers involved in the ...
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Prevalence of Potentially Inappropriate Medication use in older drivers
... priate medication prescribing has sometimes been reported as similar in urban and rural locations [6, 28] or as more common for urban patients [29] or rural patients ...with inappropriate prescribing ...
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Potentially Inappropriate Medication use in elderly in a Tertiary Care Centre in South India: An Observational study
... 105 | P a g e this finding in our study is NSAIDs are commonly used in the community for a shorter period, but to be included in our study, there has to be a regular consumption of a drug for atleast 2 weeks. The risk ...
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Effect of total exemption from medical service co payments on potentially inappropriate medication use among elderly ambulatory patients in a single center in Japan: a retrospective cross sectional study
... Results: Six hundred seventy-one consecutive patients aged 65 years or older who routinely visited internal medi- cine physicians were included. Their mean age was 75.7 years, and 342 (51.0%) patients were men. The ...
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Prescription of potentially inappropriate medication in Korean older adults based on 2012 Beers Criteria: a cross-sectional population based study
... or medication classes considered inappropriate for any patient 65 years of age and older, the prevalence of benzodiazepines (short, intermediate, and long acting) was ...
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Joint effects of advancing age and number of potentially inappropriate medication classes on risk of falls in Medicare enrollees
... of medication classes and age group in a Taiwanese sample, which found that the degree of FRD-associated increase in fall risk was greater for those aged 75 to 84 years than for those aged 85 years or older ...
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Potentially inappropriate medication use among hypertensive older African-American adults
... The participant is in her 70’s with a medical history signifi- cant for Parkinson’s disease, dependent activities of daily living (ADLs), depression and heart problems with a pace- maker. She has a total of 12 ...
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Costs of potentially inappropriate medication use in residential aged care facilities
... total medication costs (Adjusted β = ...of medication costs that were spent on PIMs in 1 year was ...whether medication reviews in this population could lead to potential cost savings and improvement ...
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A comparison of estimated drug costs of potentially inappropriate medications between older patients receiving nurse home visit services and patients receiving pharmacist home visit services: a cross sectional and propensity score analysis
... a medication review by a community pharmacist could reduce the number of medications, but it was not clear about the relations of pharmacist intervention to drug costs of PIMs ...of potentially ...
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DEPRESCRIBING IN NURSING HOME RESIDENTS: AN IMPLICIT ALGORITHM
... The development of the algorithm was based on a systematic literature search conducted in February 2019. We searched the following databases: Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, MEDLINE, Embase and ...
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A tailored implementation intervention to implement recommendations addressing polypharmacy in multimorbid patients: study protocol of a cluster randomized controlled trial
... complex medication regimens and are at higher risk for adverse drug reactions and ...structured medication counselling, use of medication lists and medication reviews to avoid ...
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... Background: Geriatric people particularly those with multiple co-morbid condition may result in polypharmacy which can be associated with use of potentially inappropriate medication. This study aims ...
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Potentially inappropriate prescriptions for older patients in long-term care
... The mean number of medications was also higher (4.8) than in community-dwelling individuals in Quebec (2.9) [25], but lower than in American long-term care (7.2) [7]. The total prevalence of PIPs among the population ...
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Potentially inappropriate medications in elderly ambulatory and institutionalized patients: an observational study
... nonprescription medication and to various natural ...as medication review of the elderly pharmacotherapy are not mandatory and are usually conducted in an aca- demic or research- related ...
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Potentially inappropriate prescriptions for elderly people taking antidepressant: comparative tools
... of inappropriate medications (long-acting benzodiazepines, tricyclic antidepressants, antipsychotics), in many other coun- tries, physicians have moved away from these ...
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