ArticleBMC geriatrics2017
Potentially inappropriate prescriptions for elderly people taking antidepressant: comparative tools.
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- Prevalence of antidepressant use in Brazil: a systematic review with meta-analysis.Revista brasileira de psiquiatria (Sao Paulo, Brazil : 1999) · 2024Pooled it
- Prevalence of Use of Potentially Inappropriate Medications Among Older Adults Worldwide: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.JAMA network open · 2023Pooled it
- The impact of an intervention by a mobile geriatrics team including a pharmacist on potentially inappropriate drug prescription: results of the PharMoG study.BMC geriatrics · 2026Article
- Potentially inappropriate medications in older outpatients with depression: a cross-sectional study comparing the Beers criteria and the Chinese criteria.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- EVALUATION OF SCREENING TOOL OF OLDER PEOPLE'S PRESCRIPTIONS (STOPP) CRITERIA IN AN URBAN COHORT OF OLDER PEOPLE WITH HIV.Pharmacoepidemiology · 2025Article
- Response to "Prevalence of antidepressant use in Brazil: a systematic review with meta-analysis".Revista brasileira de psiquiatria (Sao Paulo, Brazil : 1999) · 2025Article
- Factors associated with psychotropic drugs use in older adults hospitalized in clinical and surgical wards of a university hospital.Dementia & neuropsychologia · 2025Article
- Discontinuation of Antidepressants in Older Adults: A Literature Review.Therapeutics and clinical risk management · 2023Review
- Overuse of medications in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review.Bulletin of the World Health Organization · 2023Article
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- Evaluation of psychotropic medications use among elderly with psychiatric disorders in Saudi Arabia.Saudi pharmaceutical journal : SPJ : the official publication of the Saudi Pharmaceutical Society · 2021Article
- Potentially inappropriate medication use among older patients attending a geriatric centre in south-west Nigeria.Pharmacy practiceArticle
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Abstract
backgroundThe use of psychotropic drugs by elderly people is widely spread around the world, given that prevalence of inappropriate medication is frequent. Strictly speaking, in Brazil, the vulnerable population of elderly people is more likely to use Potentially Inappropriate Psychotropic (PIP) due to the impact of social-economic characteristics, to the Brazilian Public Health System, and to the lack of patient monitoring. However, neither the use pattern nor the prevalence rate of PIP have been studied in Brazil so far. The objectives of this study were to determine the prevalence of PIP in elderly outpatients taking antidepressants, and to compare the performance of two different tools (Beers, STOPP).
methodsThis cross-sectional study involved all the aged outpatients (≥ 60 years of age) taking antidepressants attended by the public health system in a city of the State of São Paulo, Brazil. Data were obtained from a pharmacy database and medical records. All psychotropic drugs evaluated included: antidepressants, antipsychotics, anti-epileptics and benzodiazepines. STOPP and Beers criteria were applied to detect PIP.
resultsOne thousand one hundred forty prescriptions from 174 outpatients were subjected to two different screening tools. The average patient age was 67 (interquartile range 63-74) and the median number of drugs used was 3.0 (interquartile 2-4) per patient. The overall prevalence of PIP was 121 (69.5%). The levels of PIP observed according to tools were 39.6% (STOPP) and 29.9% (Beers).The long-term use of benzodiazepines was the most common PIP recognized, and the one which contributed more significantly to higher levels of PIP than other medications.
conclusionsThe prevalence of PIP was high among the elderly. STOPP criteria identified more PIP than Beers criteria. Knowledge of PIP prevalence should gear efforts to reduce the level of inappropriate prescriptions and may provide the need for developing national criteria.
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