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Inappropriate Prescribing for the Elderly: Beers Criteria-Based Review

Annals of Pharmacotherapy, 2000
OBJECTIVE: To review currently available literature applying the Beers criteria for inappropriate medication use in the elderly to prescribing practices in various settings. DATA SOURCE: Key words including inappropriate, Beers ...
Rajender R. Aparasu, Jane R Mort
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Concerns about study on Beers criteria

American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy, 2007
Dr. Kelly’s concerns are important but do not match the objective of our study, which was to document the use of Beers drugs in inpatient seniors by using an administrative database. Creating a demographic comparison table would have been reasonable for a more involved study but was ...
Mary Ellen Bonk, Michael Oinonen, Karl Matuszewski   +2 more
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The Beers criteria: Not just for geriatrics anymore? Analysis of Beers criteria medications in nongeriatric trauma patients and their association with falls

Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, 2019
BACKGROUND It has been well established that many classes of medications on the Beers list of Potentially Inappropriate Medications (PIMs) are associated with falls and injuries in the geriatric population, but little work has been performed to understand if similar relationships exist among the nongeriatric adult population.
Adam H, Maerz, Benjamin S, Walker, Bryan R, Collier, Allison N, Tegge, Emily R, Faulks, Katie L, Bower, Michael S, Nussbaum, Daniel I, Lollar, Mark E, Hamill   +8 more
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Beer in the Ukraine: consumer choice criteria

International Journal of Emerging Markets, 2010
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the attitudes and behaviour of Ukrainian consumers in terms of the purchase of beer (both foreign and domestic brands). There is an emphasis on the relative importance of the country of origin (COO), when compared to other factors.Design/methodology/approachPrimary research is based on a convenience sample
Ol'ga Khmel'nyts'ka, Jonathan S. Swift
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2012 Beers Criteria Update: How Should Practicing Nurses Use the Criteria?

Geriatric Nursing, 2012
The continued development of explicit lists of medications to avoid in older adults, such as the Beers criteria, is a key initiative in geriatrics. The involvement of nurse in this endeavor is critical , and nursing research, education, and practice will help not only develop but also disseminate important pharmacological management information to the ...
Barbara, Resnick, Donna M, Fick
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Beyond the beers criteria: A comparative overview of explicit criteria.

The Annals of pharmacotherapy, 2011
To provide a comparative overview of explicit criteria that have been developed since 2003 for inappropriate prescribing in older adults and to contrast these newer criteria with the most recent Beers criteria, published in 2003.MEDLINE and Google Scholar searches were performed from 2003 through July 2010.
Hedva Barenholtz, Levy, Esther-Lee, Marcus, Catherine, Christen   +2 more
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Updated 2012 Beers Criteria: What’s Noteworthy and Cautionary?

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 2012
The Beers Criteria for potentially inappropriate medication use in older adults, originally published in 1991, have gone through several iterations.1 The initial publication focused exclusively on nursing home residents, providing a list of medications where the potential for harm exceeded the potential for beneficial effects.
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Beers-Criteria: Translation of the recent update.

Medizinische Monatsschrift fur Pharmazeuten, 2018
The Beers criteria are an important instrument to improve medication safety in geriatrics. In 2015, the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) updated the Beers criteria and extended the list regarding important aspects. Our translation into German aims to simplify the application in German health care and to improve medication safety.
Katja, Prax, Zahra, Abbas, Kristina, Friedland, Martin, Smollich   +3 more
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Beers' Criteria for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use in the Elderly

Journal of Gerontological Nursing, 2003
BEST TOOL: The adapted Beers’ Criteria (HCFA Guidelines for Potentially Inappropriate Medications in the Elderly) identifies medications noted by an expert panel to have potential risks that outweigh potential benefits of the drug. The criteria are appropriate for persons older than 65 years of age, regardless of their level of frailty.
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Integrating the 2019 AGS Beers Criteria into NP practice

The Nurse Practitioner, 2020
Abstract: The American Geriatrics Society Beers Criteria, designed to prevent the prescription of potentially inappropriate medications to older adult patients, were updated in 2019. This article provides a stepwise protocol on how to incorporate the Beers Criteria guidelines into NP practice using a case study model.
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