Inappropriate prescribing in the older population: need for new criteria.
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Department of Geriatric Medicine, Cork University Hospital, Wilton Cork 4,, Ireland. denis.omahony@mailp.hse.ieIssue Date
2012-02-03T15:12:46ZMeSH
Adverse Drug Reaction Reporting Systems/organization & administrationAged
Aged, 80 and over
Aging/*drug effects/physiology
Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
Drug Prescriptions/*standards/statistics & numerical data
Drug Utilization/standards/statistics & numerical data
Female
Geriatric Assessment/methods
Humans
Incidence
Ireland
Male
Medication Errors/*statistics & numerical data
Needs Assessment
Pharmaceutical Preparations/*adverse effects
Physician's Practice Patterns
Risk Assessment
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Age Ageing. 2008 Mar;37(2):138-41.Journal
Age and ageingDOI
10.1093/ageing/afm189PubMed ID
18349010Abstract
Inappropriate prescribing (IP) is a common and serious global healthcare problem in elderly people, leading to increased risk of adverse drug reactions (ADRs), polypharmacy being the main risk factor for both IP and ADRs. IP in older people is highly prevalent but preventable; hence screening tools for IP have been devised, principally Beers' Criteria and the Inappropriate Prescribing in the Elderly Tool (IPET). Although Beers' Criteria have become the most widely cited IP criteria in the literature, nevertheless, they have serious deficiencies, including several drugs that are rarely prescribed nowadays, a lack of structure in the presentation of the criteria and omission of several important and common IP instances. New, more up-to-date, systems-based and easily applicable criteria are needed that can be applied in the routine clinical setting.Language
engISSN
1468-2834 (Electronic)0002-0729 (Linking)
ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1093/ageing/afm189
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