ArticleMedical principles and practice : international journal of the Kuwait University, Health Science Centre2018
Potentially Inappropriate Prescribing in Older Adults with Hypertension or Diabetes Mellitus and Hypertension in a Primary Care Setting in Bahrain.
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- Potentially inappropriate prescribing in Iranian elderly population: a nationwide claims-based analysis.BMJ open · 2026Observational
- Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use in Older Adults: Concordance Among the Chinese and AGS/Beers and STOPP Criteria.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Prevalence and Association of Polypharmacy and Potentially Inappropriate Medications Among Older Adults with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Pharmacy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Burnout, depression, and medication errors among family physicians.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Potentially inappropriate prescribing among older adults with hypertension in China: prevalence and related comorbidities across different outpatient settings.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2024Article
- Prescribing Practices in Geriatric Patients with Cardiovascular Diseases.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Potentially inappropriate prescribing for adults living with diabetes mellitus: a scoping review.International journal of clinical pharmacy · 2022Article
- Trends in polypharmacy and potentially inappropriate medication (PIM) in older and middle-aged people treated for diabetes.British journal of clinical pharmacology · 2021Article
- Medication error trends in Middle Eastern countries: A systematic review on healthcare services.Journal of education and health promotion · 2021Review
- Potentially inappropriate medications use and its association with health-related quality of life among elderly cardiac patients.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2020Article
- Prevalence, Determinants And Associated Risk Of Potentially Inappropriate Prescribing For Older Adults In Qatar: A National Retrospective Study.Clinical interventions in aging · 2019Article
- Inappropriate medication use and associated factors in geriatric patients with hypertension and diabetes.Journal of family & community medicineArticle
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Abstract
objectivesThe aims of this study were to evaluate: (1) the prevalence and types of potentially inappropriate prescribing in older adults with hypertension or diabetes mellitus and hypertension, and (2) whether or not differences in the training of primary care physicians were associated with potentially inappropriate prescribing. MATERIALS AND
methodsPrimary care prescriptions issued by family physicians and general practitioners were audited using Screening Tool of Older Persons' Prescriptions criteria (version 1), with 18 out of 65 applicable criteria. Descriptive statistics were used to test the difference between proportions, and two-tailed t test was used for continuous variables.
resultsA total of 2,090 outpatient prescriptions were written during the study period; of these, 712 (34.1%) were potentially inappropriate. The mean number of drugs per patient was 6.03 (±2.5). Of the 712 prescriptions, 543 (76.3%) were used for the treatment of acute medical illnesses. The most common examples of potentially inappropriate prescribing were: orphenadrine (n = 174; 8.33%), long-term nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs for > 3 months (n = 150; 7.18%), proton pump inhibitors for > 8 weeks (n = 135; 6.46%), antihypertensive therapy duplication (n = 59; 2.82%), long-acting glyburide (n = 48; 2.29%), and chlordiazepoxide for > 1 month (n = 44; 2.11%). Family physicians showed a greater tendency toward potentially inappropriate prescribing compared to general practitioners, but the difference was nonsignificant (n = 514 [34.75%] vs. n = 162 [31.3%]; p = 0.16).
conclusionsThe prevalence of potentially inappropriate prescribing (i.e., 34.1%) was within the spectrum reported worldwide and unrelated to the training backgrounds of physicians. Most of the identified potentially inappropriate prescribing (76.3%) in older adults was associated with medications for acute medical illnesses and hence inappropriate polypharmacy should be discouraged.
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