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Effects of medication reviews on use of potentially inappropriate medications in elderly patients; a cross sectional study in Swedish primary care
... A medication review is a method to, in a structured and systematic way, according to local guide- lines and routines, analyse, follow-up and review an indi- vidual’s drug therapy ...[14]. Potentially ...
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Prescription of potentially inappropriate medication in Korean older adults based on 2012 Beers Criteria: a cross-sectional population based study
... panel list (2007) [6], the Screening Tool of Older Person's Prescriptions/Screening Tool to Alert Doctors to Right Treatment (STOPP/START) from Ireland (2008) [7], the Australian prescribing indicators (2008) [8], ...
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Fundamentals of Polypharmacy and Its Preventive Measures
... Beers’ List, Screening Tool of Older Person’s potentially inappropriate Prescriptions (STOPP), Medication Appropriateness Index, Hyper pharmacotherapy Assessment Tool, Screening Tool to Alert ...
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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>
... the medication the patient is taking nor of the changes made by other pre- scribers to the list of medication; this increases the risk of duplicated drugs, adverse drug reactions, drug – drug inter- ...
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Potentially Inappropriate Medication use in elderly in a Tertiary Care Centre in South India: An Observational study
... Of the 280 patients, a median of 2 doctors were treating each patient, with a maximum of 5 doctors in a few patients. The majority of the population (82%) was been treated by one or two doctors. Out of 280 patients, 99 ...
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Potentially inappropriate medications in elderly ambulatory and institutionalized patients: an observational study
... PRISCUS list, their simultaneous use was considered as useful for the identification of the particu- lar medication use patterns among the two ...PRISCUS list does not), this aspect was considered ...
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Potentially inappropriate prescriptions for older patients in long-term care
... of potentially inappropriate medication use in the community-dwelling elderly in the United ...criteria list that was primarily based on Beers and McLeod criteria [4,13,22] and that was ...
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Prescription of potentially inappropriate medication in older persons in Switzerland: does the dispensing channel make a difference?
... Patients and methods: We analyzed basic health insurance claims of 50,747 person quarter years with PIM use of residents of the Swiss cantons Aargau and Lucerne of the years 2012 and 2013. PIM was identified using the ...
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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 Utilization in the Emergency Department Visits by Older Adults: Analysis From a Nationally Representative Sample
... The problem of PIM use should be solvable at the system level. Incorporating more safety measures such as computer reviews or formulaic approaches, in addi- tion to informing practitioners about the Beers criteria, may ...
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MEDICATION ERROR – THE CHALLENGING CONCERN
... „Medication error has also been defined as a reduction in the probability of treatment being timely and effective, or an increase in the risk of harm relating to medicines and prescribing compared with generally ...
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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
... Several studies have shown that PIMs among older pa- tients are correlated with increased adverse drug reactions (ADRs) [3-6], health care utilization [7-9], death [10,11], poor adherence [12,13] and greater economic ...
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Potentially inappropriate prescribing among older people in the United Kingdom
... Following the application of 52 STOPP indicators to CPRD, the overall PIP prevalence, in those aged ≥ 70 years, in the UK, was estimated at 29%. The most common cases of PIP were therapeutic duplication, use of aspirin ...
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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 prescribing among older people in the United Kingdom
... Following the application of 52 STOPP indicators to CPRD, the overall PIP prevalence, in those aged ≥ 70 years, in the UK, was estimated at 29%. The most common cases of PIP were therapeutic duplication, use of aspirin ...
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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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A tailored implementation intervention to implement recommendations addressing polypharmacy in multimorbid patients: study protocol of a cluster randomized controlled trial
... of medication-related topics and thus introduce a behaviour change that results in a higher proportion of patients carrying a medication list with them and reporting medication changes and ...
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Identifying potentially inappropriate prescribing in older people with dementia : a systematic review
... However, medication or diagnostic information needed to apply sections of the criteria was not always ...support medication reviews in the presence of the patient where the necessary clinical information ...
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Potentially inappropriate prescribing in dementia: a state-of-the-art review since 2007
... However, a second group was also identified which included a variety of PIP instances related to medications used to treat comorbidities of dementia. PIP related to medication used to treat cardiovascular disease, ...
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Systems to identify potentially inappropriate prescribing in people with advanced dementia: a systematic review
... that medication classes for secondary pre- vention such as lipid-lowering agents, antibiotics, antihy- pertensives and psychotropics can be withdrawn in older patients without causing ...
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