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Inappropriate prescribing for older people admitted to an intermediate-care nursing home unit and hospital wards [PDF]

, 2012
Objective: To identify inappropriate prescribing among older patients on admission to and discharge from an intermediatecare nursing home unit and hospital wards, and to compare changes during stay within and between these groups.
Ruths, Sabine, Ranhoff, Anette Hylen, Engeland, Anders, Bakken, Marit Stordal   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Impact of Age on the Diagnostic Yield of Routine EEG in People With Childhood or Juvenile Absence Epilepsy: A Cross‐Sectional Study

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background We aimed to identify the proportion of individuals with a confirmed diagnosis of childhood absence epilepsy (CAE) or juvenile absence epilepsy (JAE) who show a negative routine EEG (rEEG), and to determine the main factors associated with this finding.
Francesco Fortunato, Alessia Giugno, Miriam Sturniolo, Enrico Fratto, Pio Zoleo, Francesca Felicia Operto, Ilaria Sammarra, Antonio Gambardella   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Antimicrobial stewardship in rural and remote primary health care: a narrative review

Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control, 2021
Background Antimicrobial resistance is an emerging problem worldwide and poses a significant threat to human health. Antimicrobial stewardship programmes are being implemented in health systems globally, primarily in hospitals, to address the growing ...
Jun Wern Yau, Sze Mun Thor, Danny Tsai, Tobias Speare, Chris Rissel   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Explicit criteria for potentially inappropriate medications to reduce the risk of adverse drug reactions in elderly people: from Beers to STOPP/START criteria

, 2012
Balanced and safe prescribing is difficult to achieve in frail older adults with multiple comorbid diseases. For this reason, great efforts have been made in the search for interventions to improve efficacy, safety and appropriateness of prescriptions in
Onder, Graziano
core   +1 more source

Minimal Important Change and Minimal Clinically Important Difference in Pain and Function With Exercise in Hip Osteoarthritis

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective The objective of this study was to estimate the minimal important change (MIC) and minimal clinically important difference (MCID) for pain and physical function in individuals with hip osteoarthritis (OA) following a physiotherapist‐guided exercise intervention.
Yareni Guerrero, Fiona Dobson, Venkatesha Venkatesha, Kim Allison, Gabrielle Knox, Libby Spiers, Travis Haber, David J Hunter, Michelle Hall   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluation of Potentially Inappropriate Drug Use in Older Adult Outpatients Using the Turkish Inappropriate Medication Use in the Elderly Criteria in Kütahya Province, Turkey

İstanbul Medical Journal, 2023
Introduction:The population aged 65 years and older has the highest rates of drug use and is more sensitive to drug effects. Appropriate medication use among older adults is associated with poor clinical outcomes.
Ertaç Berker, Türkan Paşalı Kilit, Filiz Özyiğit   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Inappropriate dosing of direct oral anticoagulants: findings from a clinical vignette study and physician survey

Journal of Market Access & Health Policy, 2023
Objective Direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) are first-line therapy for stroke prevention for 1.4 million atrial fibrillation (AF) patients in the UK. However, the rates of DOAC dosing below evidence-based recommendations are estimated between 9% and 22%.
Ahmet Fuat, Emmanuel Ako, David Hargroves, Douglas Holden, Amrit Caleyachetty, Matthew Carter, James Harris, Carol Roberts, Nnanyelu Nzeakor, Burcu Vardar, Helen Williams   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Prevalence of potentially inappropriate prescribing in older people in primary care and its association with hospital admission: longitudinal study [PDF]

, 2018
Objective To determine whether hospital admission is associated with potentially inappropriate prescribing among older primary care patients (aged ≥65 years) and whether such prescribing was more likely after hospital admission than before.Design ...
Teresa Perez (42093), Ronald McDowell (3849064), Emma Wallace (7895447), Perez, Teresa, Fahey, Tom, Pérez Pérez, Teresa, Moriarty, Frank, Wallace, Emma, Patrick Redmond (10046024), Frank Moriarty (7895507), Redmond, Patrick, McDowell, Ronald   +11 more
core   +1 more source

Real‐World Trends in Prenatal Antirheumatic Drug Utilization in Ontario, Canada: A Cross‐Sectional Time‐Series Analysis

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective This study aimed to describe real‐world trends in preconception and prenatal use of antirheumatic drugs among pregnant individuals with rheumatic diseases in Ontario, Canada. Methods We conducted a time‐series analysis using repeated cross‐sectional data to examine annual patterns of disease‐modifying antirheumatic drug (DMARD) use among ...
Shenthuraan Tharmarajah, Swaleh Hussain, Sara J. T. Guilcher, Lisa M. McCarthy, Dharini Mahendira, Howard Berger, Mina Tadrous   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tackling potentially inappropriate prescriptions in older adults: development of deprescribing criteria by consensus from experts in Colombia, Argentina, and Spain

BMC Geriatrics, 2023
Background Potentially inappropriate medication use is prevalent among older adults in primary care, leading to increased morbidity, adverse drug reactions, hospitalizations, and mortality.
Roxana De las salas, Claudia Vaca-González, Javier Eslava-Schmalbach, Catalina Torres-Espinosa, Albert Figueras   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source