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Swiss Medical Weekly, 2023 INTRODUCTION: Proton-pump inhibitors (PPIs) should be deprescribed when an indication is lacking or the dose is too high. Academic and media reports have tried to raise awareness and thereby reduce the inappropriate prescribing of PPIs.
Renata Vidonscky Lüthold +6 more
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Inappropriate prescribing: hazards and solutions [PDF]
Age and Ageing, 2022 AbstractWith population ageing, the number of older people is growing, which results in increasing number of people with multimorbidity and related polypharmacy. Polypharmacy in its turn leads to drug-related problems (DRPs) and potentially inappropriate prescribing (IP) in older people. In this commentary, susceptibility of older people to DRPs due to
Mirko, Petrovic +2 more
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Inappropriate prescribing in the elderly [PDF]
Journal of Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics, 2007 Drug therapy is necessary to treat acute illness, maintain current health and prevent further decline. However, optimizing drug therapy for older patients is challenging and sometimes, drug therapy can do more harm than good. Drug utilization review tools can highlight instances of potentially inappropriate prescribing to those involved in elderly ...
P Barry
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Drug Utilization and Inappropriate Prescribing in Centenarians [PDF]
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2016 Objectives To use primary care electronic health records ( EHR s) to evaluate prescriptions and inappropriate prescribing in men and women at age 100. Design
Hazra, Nisha Chan +3 more
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Appropriateness of DOAC Prescribing Before and During Hospital Admission and Analysis of Determinants for Inappropriate Prescribing [PDF]
Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2018 Background and Objectives: Appropriate dosing of direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) is required to avoid under- and overdosing that may precipitate strokes or thromboembolic events and bleedings, respectively.
Souad Moudallel +3 more
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BMJ Open Quality, 2019 Importance Antibiotic resistance is a global health issue. Up to 50% of antibiotics are inappropriately prescribed, the majority of which are for acute respiratory tract infections (ARTI).Objective To evaluate the impact of unblinded normative comparison
Richard V Milani +5 more
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A Snapshot of Potentially Inappropriate Prescriptions upon Pediatric Discharge in Oman
Pharmacy, 2022 Background: Identifying and quantifying potentially inappropriate prescribing (PIP) practices remains a time-consuming and challenging task, particularly among the pediatric population.
Alaa M. Soliman +4 more
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A tool for screening potentially inappropriate prescribing in Chinese children
Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2022 Background: More than half of adverse drug events in pediatric patients are avoidable and blocking medication errors at the prescribing stage might be one of the most effective preventive measures.Objective: To form a tool (a series of criteria) for ...
Siyu Li +25 more
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Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology, 2021 Objective: To reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing for acute respiratory infections (ARIs) by employing peer comparison with behavioral feedback in the emergency department (ED). Design: A controlled before-and-after study.
George F. Jones +8 more
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Methods to reduce prescribing errors in elderly patients with multimorbidity
Clinical Interventions in Aging, 2016 Amanda H Lavan, Paul F Gallagher, Denis O’Mahony Department of Geriatric Medicine, Cork University Hospital, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland Abstract: The global population of multimorbid older people is growing steadily. Multimorbidity is
Lavan AH, Gallagher PF, O’Mahony D
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