Potentially inappropriate medication use among elderly home care patients in Europe.
By D. Fialová, E. Topinkova, G. Gambassi, H. Finne-Soveri, P. Jonsson, I. Carpenter, M. Schroll, G. Onder, L. Sørbye, C. Wagner and 2 more. Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2005
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Subfields: Family Practice, General Health Professions, Geriatrics and Gerontology
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- Potentially inappropriate medications in the elderly: the PRISCUS list. (2010, background): “40 42283 Wuppertal, Germany E-Mail: petra.thuermann@helios-kliniken.de Conflict of interest statement In the past five years, Professor Thürmann has received honoraria for conducting two clinical phase I studies (on behalf of STADA AG and Biotest Pharma AG).”
- STOPP (Screening Tool of Older Persons' potentially inappropriate Prescriptions): application to acutely ill elderly patients and comparison with Beers' criteria. (2008, background): “amitriptyline [12] and nitrofurantoin [13], and almost half of the PIMs in Beers’ criteria are unavailable in European formularies [14].”
- Medication Use Leading to Emergency Department Visits for Adverse Drug Events in Older Adults (2007, background): “Potentially inappropriate prescriptions have recently been associated with increased health care costs and may be a marker for poor-quality care (22, 24); however, population-based evidence of a causal linkage between these prescribing practices and specific adverse events is lacking (52).”
- STOPP (Screening Tool of Older Person's Prescriptions) and START (Screening Tool to Alert doctors to Right Treatment). Consensus validation. (2008, background): “…these criteria to determine the preva- lence of inappropriate prescribing in older people, with rates ranging from 11 – 65% de- pending on the population being studied [Fialova et al. 2005, Pitkala et al. 2002, Spinewine et al. 2007, Stuck et al. 1994, van der Hooft et al. 2005, Zhan et al. 2001].”