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BMC Geriatrics, 2023 Background Potentially inappropriate medication (PIM) use is a highly prevalent problem among older people, making it challenging to improve patient safety.
Stanislava Kosirova +3 more
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Geriatrics, Gerontology and Aging, 2023 Objectives: To estimate the anticholinergic burden in geriatric patients using two scales and to assess the degree of agreement between them. Methods: Data from an observational study conducted in a primary health care service were used.
Tatiana da Silva Sempé +2 more
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Correlation of Incident Potentially Inappropriate Medication Prescriptions and Hospitalization: An Analysis Based on the PRISCUS List [PDF]
Drugs - Real World Outcomes, 2015 Multimorbidity and polypharmacy represent a major problem for elderly patients. Potentially inappropriate medication (PIM) use is highly prevalent among the elderly. PIMs are considered high-risk drugs and are suspected to be responsible for adverse drug events (ADEs) leading to hospitalization.The objective of this study was to determine ...
Henschel, Frank +3 more
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Polypharmacy, Potentially Inappropriate Medications, and Dysphagia in Older Inpatients: A Multi-Center Cohort Study [PDF]
Annals of Geriatric Medicine and ResearchBackground Although the relationship between medication status, symptomatology, and outcomes has been evaluated, data on the prevalence of polypharmacy and potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs) and the association of polypharmacy and PIMs with ...
Shintaro Togashi +7 more
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Development of a List of Potentially Inappropriate Drugs for the Korean Elderly Using the Delphi Method [PDF]
Healthcare Informatics Research, 2010 ObjectivesThis study aimed to develop a list of potentially inappropriate drugs for the elderly in Korea using the Delphi technique.MethodsA Delphi evaluation with a two-round survey was used to reach a consensus on the criteria for inappropriate ...
Dong Sook Kim +2 more
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International Journal of Basic & Clinical Pharmacology, 2019 Background: Use of inappropriate medication is an important problem in present geriatric clinical practice. No specific potentially inappropriate medications (PIM) tools are available considering the availability of drugs in India. Aim and objective were to assess prevalence and pattern of potentially inappropriate medication (PIM) use in elderly ...
Manoj H. Thummar +3 more
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Assessment of potentially inappropriate medications using the EU (7)-PIM list and the Swedish quality indicators [PDF]
International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy, 2019 Background Several tools to evaluate the appropriateness of prescriptions have been developed over the years. Objective To compare the prevalence of potentially inappropriate medication (PIM) among elderly, using the European Union (EU) (7)-PIM list and the Swedish quality indicators. Secondary objectives were to investigate factors associated with the
Natacha Wamil +2 more
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Current Therapeutic Research, 2021 : Background: It has been well recognized that pharmaceutical interventions (PIs) can prevent patient harm related to prescribing errors. Various tools have been developed to facilitate the detection and the reduction of inappropriate prescriptions and ...
Akram Farhat, PhD +4 more
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Factors associated with psychotropic drugs use in older adults hospitalized in clinical and surgical wards of a university hospital [PDF]
Dementia & Neuropsychologia. Prescription of psychotropic drugs and potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs) for older adults is a common condition. Assessing the factors associated with this prescription is essential especially within the hospital setting, requiring the ...
Rafael Thomazi +2 more
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GRADEing the quality of evidence on safety: an adapted GRADE approach for preparing lists of potentially inappropriate medication for older adults [PDF]
, 2021 Abstract BackgroundSystematic reviews that synthesize safety outcomes pose challenges (e.g. rare events), which poses questions for grading the strength of the body of evidence. In this contribution, we suggest adaption of the GRADE system for grading the quality of evidence on safety outcomes for developing a potentially inappropriate ...
Tim Mathes +4 more
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