ArticlePerspectives in clinical research2014
Utilization of potentially inappropriate medications in elderly patients in a tertiary care teaching hospital in India.
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- Drug interactions among older adults followed up in a comprehensive medication management service at Primary Care.Einstein (Sao Paulo, Brazil) · 2019Article
- Polypharmacy leads to increased prevalence of potentially inappropriate medication in the Indonesian geriatric population visiting primary care facilities.Therapeutics and clinical risk management · 2018Article
- The impact of a combined intervention program: an educational and clinical pharmacist's intervention to improve prescribing pattern in hospitalized geriatric patients at King Abdulaziz Medical City in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.Therapeutics and clinical risk management · 2018Article
- Utilization Pattern of Potentially Inappropriate Medications in Geriatric Patients in a Tertiary Care Hospital: A Retrospective Observational Study.Journal of clinical and diagnostic research : JCDR · 2017Article
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- Potentially inappropriate medications at discharge among elderly patients at a single tertiary emergency medical institution in Japan: a retrospective cross-sectional observational study.Acute medicine & surgeryArticle
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Abstract
aimTo evaluate the use of potentially inappropriate medicines in elderly inpatients in a tertiary care teaching hospital. MATERIALS AND
methodsRetrospective analysis was performed for cases of elderly patients admitted between January 2010 and December 2010. Data on age, gender, diagnosis, duration of hospital stay, treatment, and outcome were collected. Prescriptions were assessed for the use of potentially inappropriate medications in geriatric patients by using American Geriatric Society Beer's criteria (2012) and PRISCUS list (2010).
resultsA total of 676 geriatric patients (52.12% females) were admitted in the medicine ward. The average age of geriatric patients was 72.69 years. According to Beer's criteria, at least one inappropriate medicine was prescribed in 590 (87.3%) patients. Metoclopramide (54.3%), alprazolam (9%), diazepam (8%), digoxin > 0.125 mg/day (5%), and diclofenac (3.7%) were the commonly used inappropriate medications. Use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) in heart and renal failure patients was the commonly identified drug-disease interaction. According to PRISCUS list, at least one inappropriate medication was prescribed in 210 (31.06%) patients.
conclusionUse of inappropriate medicines is highly prevalent in elderly patients.
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