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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
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A machine learning-based risk warning platform for potentially inappropriate prescriptions for elderly patients with cardiovascular disease

Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2022
Potentially inappropriate prescribing (PIP), including potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs) and potential prescribing omissions (PPOs), is a major risk factor for adverse drug reactions (ADRs).
Wu Xingwei, Wu Xingwei, Chang Huan, Li Mengting, Qin Lv, Zhang Jiaying, Long Enwu, Long Enwu, Zhu Jiuqun, Zhu Jiuqun, Tong Rongsheng, Tong Rongsheng   +11 more
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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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Potentially inappropriate medication prescribing among elderly patients with cardiovascular diseases [PDF]

Vojnosanitetski Pregled, 2022
Background/Aim. The growing number of older adults means higher medicine utilization. The aim of the study was to determine the frequency and identify risk factors of potentially inappropriate medication (PIM) in the elderly population with ...
Stojanović Goran, Đurić Dušan, Jakovljević Biljana, Turnić-Nikolić Tamara, Maričić Milena, Stojanović Svetlana, Milovanović Olivera   +6 more
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Potentially Inappropriate Prescribing of Drugs

International Journal on Biomedicine and Healthcare, 2023
Background: The potentially inappropriate prescribing relates to cases of patients who were prescribed a treatment(s) that would bring them more harm than benefit. Objective: The aim of this paper was to give brief introduction to phenomenon of potentially inappropropriate prescribing. Methods: Narrative review.
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Prescribing of Potentially Inappropriate Medications for the Elderly [PDF]

Deutsches Ärzteblatt international, 2012
The PRISCUS list of potentially inappropriate medications (PIM) for the elderly was published in 2010 and is the first systematically constructed list of this type in Germany. The aim of the present study is to estimate the baseline prevalence of the prescribing of PIM, as defined by the PRISCUS list.Pseudonymized claims data from three statutory ...
Ute, Amann, Niklas, Schmedt, Edeltraut, Garbe   +2 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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Multimorbidity or polypharmacy: two sides of the same coin? [PDF]

, 2015
Polypharmacy, broadly defined as the chronic co-prescription of several drugs [1], has long been recognized as problematic. The greater the number of medicines a patient takes, the greater the risk of adverse effects of any one medicine, and the greater ...
Carol Sinnott, Sinnott, Carol, Bradley, Colin P., Colin P. Bradley   +3 more
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Gender and potentially inappropriate medication prescribing in older adults: a scoping review protocol

, 2023
We propose a scoping review focused on assessing gender and gender-related sociocultural variables as it pertains to potentially inappropriate medication prescribing in older ...
Joelle Li
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Potentially inappropriate prescribing in a falls clinic using the STOPP and START criteria

, 2021
Background Potentially inappropriate prescribing is increasingly common in older patients with falls. However, published indicators to assess inappropriate prescribing remains unestablished in many countries.
Nor'izzati, Saedon, Sukanya, A/P Subramaniam, Tan, Maw Pin *, Noor Fatin Izzati, Binti Abu Hashim, Khor, Hui Min, Rosalind, Chiam, Siti Sakinah, Binti Mohmad Nasir, Nor’izzati Saedon, Rosalind Chiam, Maw Pin Tan, Sukanya A/P. Subramaniam, Siti Sakinah binti Mohmad Nasir, Noor Fatin Izzati binti Abu Hashim, Hui Min Khor   +13 more
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