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The Prevalence of Potentially Inappropriate Prescribing in Geriatric Patients with Psychiatric Disorders in Iraq

Iraqi Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2020
Potentially inappropriate prescribing is the prescribing of a medication that may cause more harm than benefit, the elderly population aged 65 years or older is more prone to potentially inappropriate prescribing because of alterations in their ...
Mustafa K. Mahmood, Zinah M. Anwer
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Risk Factors for Unnecessary Antibiotic Prescribing for Acute Respiratory Tract Infections in Primary Care

Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Innovations, Quality & Outcomes, 2020
Objective: To determine independent risk factors for inappropriate antibiotic prescribing for acute respiratory tract infections (ARIs) in internal medicine (IM) residency–based primary care offices.
Thomas L. Walsh, MD, Kevin Taffe, MD, PhD, Nicole Sacca, DO, Derek N. Bremmer, PharmD, BCPS, Mary Lynn Sealey, MD, Elizabeth Cuevas, MD, Alexandra Johnston, DO, Alyson Malarkey, DO, Rebecca Behr, DO, Jessica Embrescia, DO, Ekknoor Sahota, MD, Sara Loucks, DO, Nupur Gupta, DO, Kelly J. Shields, PhD, Curren Katz, PhD, Anastasios Kapetanos, MD   +15 more
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Potentially inappropriate prescribing for adults living with diabetes mellitus: a scoping review [PDF]

, 2022
Background People living with diabetes often experience multiple morbidity and polypharmacy, increasing their risk of potentially inappropriate prescribing. Inappropriate prescribing is associated with poorer health outcomes.
MB Ayalew (14605520), F Quirk (13320951), MJ Spark (14605523), G Dieberg (9891296)   +3 more
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Effective Feedback to Improve Primary Care Prescribing Safety (EFIPPS) a pragmatic three-arm cluster randomised trial:designing the intervention (ClinicalTrials.gov registration NCT01602705) [PDF]

, 2014
BackgroundHigh-risk prescribing in primary care is common and causes considerable harm. Feedback interventions have small/moderate effects on clinical practice, but few trials explicitly compare different forms of feedback.
Barnett, KN, Petrie, Dennis J, Shaun Treweek, Barnett, Karen N.; id_orcid, Lewis D Ritchie, Guthrie, Bruce, Christopher Robertson, Treweek, S, Robertson, C, Bennie, M, Barnett, Karen N, Dennis J Petrie, Marion Bennie, Petrie, Dennis J., Karen N Barnett, Ritchie, Lewis D, Guthrie, B, Bennie, Marion, Bruce Guthrie, Robertson, Christopher, Ritchie, LD, Petrie, DJ, Treweek, Shaun, Ritchie, Lewis D.   +23 more
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Potentially inappropriate prescribing in older adults with advanced chronic kidney disease.

PLoS ONE, 2020
BackgroundOlder adults with chronic kidney disease (CKD) are at heightened risk for polypharmacy. We examined potentially inappropriate prescribing in this population and whether introducing pharmacists into the ambulatory kidney care model was ...
Amber O Molnar, Sarah Bota, Nivethika Jeyakumar, Eric McArthur, Marisa Battistella, Amit X Garg, Manish M Sood, K Scott Brimble   +7 more
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Prescribing-Assessment Tools for Long-Term Care Pharmacy Practice: Reaching Consensus through a Modified RAND/UCLA Appropriateness Method

Pharmacy, 2021
Medicines are the most used health technology in Long-Term Care. The prevalence of potentially inappropriate medicines amongst Long-Term Care patients is high.
João R. Gonçalves, Betsy L. Sleath, Manuel J. Lopes, Afonso M. Cavaco   +3 more
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A retrospective comparison of inappropriate prescribing of psychotropics in three Norwegian nursing homes in 2000 and 2016 with prescribing quality indicators

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 2019
Background Inappropriate prescribing of psychotropics is a persistent and prevalent problem in nursing homes. The present study compared inappropriate prescribing of psychotropics in nursing homes 16 years apart with prescribing quality indicators.
Jan Schjøtt, Jörg Aßmus
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Appropriateness of Antibiotic Prescribing in Hospitalized Children: A Focus on the Real-World Scenario of the Different Paediatric Subspecialties

Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2022
Background: Antibiotics are prescribed for children both in hospital and community settings, particularly at preschool age. Italy shows a high rate of inappropriate antibiotic prescriptions which may represent a serious problem in the hospital scenario ...
Chiara Nasso, Alessandro Scarfone, Igor Pirrotta, Michelangelo Rottura, Domenico Antonio Giorgi, Giovanni Pallio, Natasha Irrera, Violetta Squadrito, Francesco Squadrito, Pierangela Irrera, Vincenzo Arcoraci, Domenica Altavilla   +11 more
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Over- and under-prescribing, and their association with functional disability in older patients at risk of further decline in Germany – a cross-sectional survey conducted as part of a randomised comparative effectiveness trial

BMC Geriatrics, 2022
Background Older patients at risk of functional decline are frequently affected by polypharmacy. This is associated with a further loss of independence.
Claudia Salm, Julia Sauer, Nadine Binder, Aline Pfefferle, Mario Sofroniou, Gloria Metzner, Erik Farin-Glattacker, Sebastian Voigt-Radloff, Andy Maun   +8 more
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Inappropriate prescribing in outpatient healthcare: an evaluation of respiratory infection visits among veterans in teaching versus non-teaching primary care clinics

Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control, 2017
A recent study led by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) revealed at least 30% of antibiotic prescriptions in the outpatient setting were inappropriate.
Diane M. Parente, Tristan T. Timbrook, Aisling R. Caffrey, Kerry L. LaPlante   +3 more
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