Potentially Inappropriate Medications
<p>Relationship Between Potentially Inappropriate Medications And The Risk Of Hospital Readmission And Death In Hospitalized Older Patients</p>
... Some medications are more likely to cause adverse reactions among elderly patients due to the special pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of these ...of medications even overwhelm the bene fi ts of ...of ...
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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
... of potentially inappropriate medications ...Persons' potentially inappropriate Prescriptions (STOPP) criteria, we estimated the drug costs based on actual pharmaceutical prices and ...
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Potentially inappropriate medications used by the elderly: prevalence and risk factors in Brazilian care homes
... of potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs) has been studied in different health care scenar- ios, and despite the wide range of information on the subject, health professionals continue to ...
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<p>Utilization of computerized clinical decision support for potentially inappropriate medications</p>
... prescribed medications at ...(ADEs), potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs), and ...of potentially inappropriate and minimally effective medications, a process known ...
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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
... In a hospital setting, medication reviews have been re- ported to improve drug use [22, 23] and to reduce repeat hospital visits [11]. Medication reviews in primary care can reduce total number of drugs, reduce falls and ...
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Prescription pattern and prevalence of potentially inappropriate medications among elderly patients in a Nigerian rural tertiary hospital
... and inappropriate prescriptions are prominent prescribing issues with elderly ...of potentially inappropriate medications prescribed to elderly ...of potentially inappropriate ...
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Potentially inappropriate medications use in community-based aged patients: a cross-sectional study using 2012 Beers criteria
... having inappropriate drug prescriptions as compared with an elder person free from these ...of inappropriate drug prescriptions was significantly associated with age (odds ratio [OR] = ...
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An educational intervention to reduce the use of potentially inappropriate medications among older adults (EMPOWER study): protocol for a cluster randomized trial
... current potentially inappropriate medication, while the control group will be wait-listed for the intervention for 6 months and receive usual care during that time ...
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Potentially inappropriate medications in elderly ambulatory and institutionalized patients: an observational study
... suggested by previous similar research, the methodology used in this observational study tried to overcome the inherent limitations of explicit criteria, through the sim- ultaneous use of three such European instruments ...
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Potentially inappropriate medications in hospitalized older patients: a cross-sectional study using the Beers 2015 criteria versus the 2012 criteria
... This retrospective, cross-sectional study was conducted at Peking University First Hospital, a 1,500 bed tertiary care teaching hospital in China. The Department of Geriatrics cares for aging patients and patients with ...
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<p>Identification of potentially inappropriate medications with risk of major adverse cardiac and cerebrovascular events among elderly patients in ambulatory setting and long-term care facilities</p>
... Patients and methods: A cross-sectional study was performed using a convenience sample from four long-term care facilities and one community pharmacy in Portugal. Patients were included if they were aged 65 or older and ...
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Prevalence of potentially inappropriate medications use among older adults and risk factors using the 2015 American Geriatrics Society Beers criteria
... It is well known that PIMs use among older pa- tients is associated with negative health consequences and can impact patients’ quality of life. PIMs use in- creases the risk of hospitalization, drug-related prob- lems ...
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Assessment of prescribing potentially inappropriate medications listed in Beers criteria and its association with the unplanned hospitalization: a cross-sectional study in Lahore, Pakistan
... on community level and prioritizing the medical needs. The previously published studies conducted on different regions of the world have showed the effect of using Beers c[r] ...
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Prescription of potentially inappropriate medications among older people with intellectual disability: a register study
... A potential cause of concern is the lower prescription rate of medications used to treat pain, i.e. NSAIDs and tramadol, among people with ID compared with the general population. That we consider this possibly ...
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Comparison of three criteria for potentially inappropriate medications in Chinese older adults
... between the Chinese criteria and the Beers criteria regarding medication risk irrespective of conditions was about 90%. The Chinese criteria contained clopidogrel, gatifloxacin, vancomycin, clindamycin, aminoglycosides, ...
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The use of potentially inappropriate medications and changes in quality of life among older nursing home residents
... prescribed medications (n = 77), less than 3 month stay in a nursing home (n = 2), diagnosis of dementia (n = 32), and those who refused to participate (n = ...
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Pharmacist intervention can reduce the potential use of inappropriate drugs medications in Indonesian geriatric patients
... analyze potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs) with prospective data collection in the geriatric ward of Regional General Hospital ...to inappropriate use of the drug can be minimized at ...
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Potentially inappropriate prescriptions for elderly people taking antidepressant: comparative tools
... Benzodiazepines and antipsychotics are the most potentially inappropriate medications for elderly people, given their adverse effects. The findings of this study are consistent with those from the US ...
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Potentially inappropriate medication use in nursing homes: an observational study using the NORGEP-NH criteria
... with potentially inappropriate medications, and 3+ concomitant psychotropic medications according to NORGEP-NH Single Substance and Combination Criteria ...
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Systems to identify potentially inappropriate prescribing in people with advanced dementia: a systematic review
... tifying 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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