ArticleKorean journal of family medicine2016
Potentially Inappropriate Medications by Beers Criteria in Older Outpatients: Prevalence and Risk Factors.
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- The prevalence and risk factors of potentially inappropriate medication use in older Chinese inpatients with multimorbidity and polypharmacy: a cross-sectional study.Annals of translational medicine · 2021Article
- Potentially inappropriate prescribing of cardiovascular system and antiplatelet/anticoagulant drugs among elderly patients: a Korean population-based national study.Journal of geriatric cardiology : JGC · 2021Article
- Potentially Inappropriate Prescriptions to Older Patients in Emergency Departments in South Korea: A Retrospective Study.Therapeutics and clinical risk management · 2021Article
- Adherence to Beers Criteria in Geriatrics: A Retrospective Study in a Saudi Teaching Hospital.Geriatrics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Polypharmacy, Inappropriate Medication Use, and Drug Interactions in Older Korean Patients with Cancer Receiving First-Line Palliative Chemotherapy.The oncologist · 2020Observational
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- Association of Geriatric Syndromes with Urinary Incontinence according to Sex and Urinary-Incontinence-Related Quality of Life in Older Inpatients: A Cross-Sectional Study of an Acute Care Hospital.Korean journal of family medicine · 2019Article
- Prevalence of potentially inappropriate medications use among older adults and risk factors using the 2015 American Geriatrics Society Beers criteria.BMC geriatrics · 2019Article
- Potential inappropriate prescribing and associated factors among older persons in Nigeria and South Africa.International journal of clinical pharmacy · 2019Article
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Abstract
backgroundPrescription of inappropriate medicine to elderly patients is a major public health care concern. The Beers criteria have been commonly employed as a screening tool to identify the use of potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs). The present study investigated the prevalence of PIM use according to the Beers criteria as well as factors related to PIM use.
methodsData obtained from a retrospective survey included 25,810 outpatients aged ≥65 years from a university medical center in Seoul, Korea. PIMs were defined using the Beers criteria. Factors associated with PIM use were evaluated using multiple regression analysis.
resultsOf all participants, 7,132 (27.6%) were prescribed at least one PIM. The most commonly prescribed PIMs were alprazolam (11.2%), clonazepam (10.8%), zolpidem (8.7%), quetiapine (8.4%), and hydroxyzine (5.4%). In multivariate logistic regression analysis, having five or more prescription medicines (odds ratio [OR], 11.32; 95% confidence interval [CI], 9.38 to 13.66) and five or more prescribing doctors (OR, 4.40; 95% CI, 3.59 to 5.39) were strongly associated with PIM. In a likelihood ratio test for trend, an increasing number of medications and prescribing doctors were both significantly associated with PIM.
conclusionAt a university medical center, the number of medications and the number of prescribing doctors was associated with PIM in older outpatients.
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