Observational studyClinical interventions in aging2018
Assessment of prescribing potentially inappropriate medications listed in Beers criteria and its association with the unplanned hospitalization: a cross-sectional study in Lahore, Pakistan.
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- Enhancing medication appropriateness: Insights from the STOPP (Screening Tool of Older Persons' Prescriptions) criteria version 3 on prescribing practices among the older adults in Pakistan.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2025Article
- Polypharmacy, drug-drug interactions, and potentially inappropriate medications among older adults: a cross-sectional study in Northeast Ethiopia.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Potentially inappropriate medication use in the elderly: physicians' and hospital pharmacists knowledge, practice, confidence, and barriers.Journal of pharmaceutical health care and sciences · 2022Article
- 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
- Prevalence and impact of potentially inappropriate medication on community-dwelling older adults.Biomedica : revista del Instituto Nacional de Salud · 2021Observational
- Potentially inappropriate medications in Chinese older adults: a comparison of two updated Beers criteria.International journal of clinical pharmacy · 2021Article
- 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
- Physician's Knowledge of Appropriate Prescribing for the Elderly-A Survey Among Family and Internal Medicine Physicians in Nigeria.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2019Article
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- Potentially inappropriate medications prescribed for older persons: A study from two teaching hospitals in Southern India.Journal of family & community medicineArticle
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Abstract
BACKGROUND AND
objectivesDue to physiological and pharmacological variations, geriatrics are at high risk of experiencing life-threatening outcomes related to the use of potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs). Thus, the present study aims to evaluate prescribing practices of PIMs among elderly patients who may lead to unplanned hospitalization and associated risk factors.
methodsA cross-sectional study was conducted in different hospitals of Lahore, Pakistan. The study population consisted of geriatric patients aged ≥65 years. Data were collected from the medical records of geriatric patients, who attended these selected hospitals between December 1, 2017, and February 28, 2018. Data were analyzed using SPSS (IBM SPSS Statistics for Windows, Version 21.0) and Microsoft Excel (MS Office 2010).
resultsThe records of 385 geriatric patients were investigated. More than half (60.8%) of the patients were subjected to polypharmacy, which can be defined as the utilization of 5-9 drugs by the patient at the same time, whereas 36.4% were prescribed with one PIM and 56.4% were hospitalized due to PIMs. Majority of them were prescribed with PIMs including N02BA01 (aspirin, 32.4%), A02BC01 (omeprazole, 23.6%), A10AB02 (insulin, 17.4%), A02BC05 (esomeprazole, 8.5%), C08CA01 (amlodipine, 8.3%), and R06AA02 (diphenhydramine, 5.9%). Results of regression analysis revealed that patients exposed to polypharmacy (OR=2.556, 95% CI=1.579-4.135,
conclusionThe utilization of PIMs listed in Beers criteria among geriatric population can cause unplanned hospitalization. As the patients receiving polypharmacy are at high risk of unplanned hospitalization, so caution must be exercised in prescribing PIMs for elderly people.
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