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Lists of potentially inappropriate medications for older people in primary care: a systematic review of health outcomes [PDF]
Cadernos de Saúde Pública: This study is a systematic literature review of the association between lists of potentially inappropriate medications (PIM) in clinical practice and health outcomes of older adults followed up in primary health care.
Rafael Cardinali Rodrigues +7 more
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Development of a Consensus List of Potentially Inappropriate Medications for Korean Older Adults [PDF]
Annals of Geriatric Medicine and Research, 2018 Background: Korea has recently attained the aged society status and the growth rate of the aging population will be among the most rapid worldwide. The objective of this study was to develop a credible list of potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs)
Moo-Young Kim +8 more
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Visual Comparison of Guidelines: Method and Application to Potentially Inappropriate Medication Lists [PDF]
, 2021 Therapeutic guidelines developed by experts are essential tools for improving therapy and drug prescription. Several guidelines often exist that target the same patient, from different organizations and countries. The case of lists for the detection of potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs) is an example which illustrates how these guidelines can
Mouazer, Abdelmalek +3 more
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Potentially inappropriate medication in the elderly in Germany: an economic appraisal of the PRISCUS list [PDF]
BMC Health Services Research, 2016 Several lists of potentially inappropriate medication (PIM) for elderly patients have been developed worldwide in recent years. Those lists intend to reduce prescriptions of drugs that carry an unnecessarily high risk of adverse drug events in elderly patients. In 2010, an expert panel published the PRISCUS list for the German drug market.
Pohl-Dernick, Katharina +4 more
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Potentially Inappropriate Medications in the Elderly: IFAsPIAM List by Argentinian Consensus Panel [PDF]
Value in Health Regional Issues, 2018 Background Medications in which the risk of adverse events exceeds the expectations of clinical benefits are called potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs). To identify the use of PIMs in elderly patients, the most commonly used tool are the Beers criteria, developed for the population of the United States. Recently, a consensus panel of Argentine
Marta M. Marzi +2 more
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Geriatrics, Gerontology and Aging, 2023 Objective: To describe the safety of medicines available in the “Brazilian List of Essential Medicines” (RENAME/2022) for the main comorbidities that affect older persons according to the Beers criteria 2019.
Francelle Adorno Sôffa Guimarães Monteiro +4 more
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BMC Geriatrics, 2022 Background Multimorbidity, polypharmacy, and potentially inappropriate medication (PIM) pose challenges for the care of people with cognitive impairment.
Jennifer Scheel +4 more
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Anatolian Journal of Cardiology, 2023 Background: Elderly comprises a specific group due to possible alterations in the effects of drugs and comorbidities. We aimed to identify for the first time the characteristics and rates regarding the inappropriate prescriptions of cardiovascular system
Mehmet Tevfik Kitapçı +5 more
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Potentially inappropriate medications with older people in intensive care and associated factors: a historic cohort study [PDF]
São Paulo Medical Journal, 2023 BACKGROUND: The epidemiology of potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs) in critical care units remains limited, especially in terms of the factors associated with their use.
Karina Sichieri +3 more
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Aging and Health Research, 2021 Background: The 2012 update of the American Geriatric Society's (AGS) Beers Criteria addended a list of antipsychotics. This study examined whether this update was associated with potentially inappropriate antipsychotic medication (PIAM) use among the ...
Dooyoung Lim, Darren Liu, Betty Burston
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