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Potentially inappropriate medication use among older patients attending a geriatric centre in south-west Nigeria.
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- Prevalence of potentially inappropriate medications in people living with HIV: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC infectious diseases · 2025Pooled it
- Prevalence of polypharmacy among older adults in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Scientific reports · 2023Pooled it
- Prevalence of Use of Potentially Inappropriate Medications Among Older Adults Worldwide: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.JAMA network open · 2023Pooled it
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- The association between healthcare expenditures and potentially inappropriate medication use in hospitalized older adults in Ethiopia.BMC geriatrics · 2024Observational
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- Potentially inappropriate medicine use and predicting risk factors in hospitalized older adult patients: findings of a prospective observational study from Ethiopia.Journal of pharmaceutical policy and practice · 2023Article
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- Potentially inappropriate medication use in the elderly: physicians' and hospital pharmacists knowledge, practice, confidence, and barriers.Journal of pharmaceutical health care and sciences · 2022Article
- Potentially inappropriate medication use among older adult patients on follow-up at the chronic care clinic of a specialized teaching hospital in Ethiopia. A cross-sectional study.BMC geriatrics · 2021Article
- Medications and the risk of falls among older people in a geriatric centre in Nigeria: a cross-sectional study.International journal of clinical pharmacy · 2021Article
- Potentially Inappropriate Medication and Associated Factors Among Older Patients with Chronic Coronary Syndrome at Hospital Discharge in Beijing, China.Clinical interventions in aging · 2021Article
- Physician's Knowledge of Appropriate Prescribing for the Elderly-A Survey Among Family and Internal Medicine Physicians in Nigeria.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2019Article
- Evaluation of prescription pattern of analgesic use among ambulatory elderly in South-Western Nigeria.Annals of African medicineArticle
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Abstract
objectivesTo determine the prevalence and describe factors associated with the use of potentially inappropriate medication (PIM) among older patients.
methodsCross sectional study of 400 older patients selected systematically at the geriatric centre, University College Hospital, Ibadan between July and September 2016. With the aid of semi-structured questionnaires, information on the socio-demographic characteristics, lifestyle habits, healthcare utilisation and morbidities was obtained. The Beer's criteria 2015 update was used to identify the PIMs. Predictors of PIMs were determined using multivariate analyses at alpha 0.05.
resultsAge was 70.2 (SD=5.9) years and 240 (60%) were females. General prescription pattern showed antihypertensives (34.7%) as the commonest medications used. The point prevalence of PIMs use was 31%. In all, 10 PIMs were used by the respondents. The majority (81.5%) were using one PIM, while (17.7%) used two PIMs and (0.8%) 3 PIMs. NSAIDs (72.6%) were the commonest PIMs identified, followed by the benzodiazepines (24.2%). Respondents had an average of 1.9 morbidities, and mulitmorbidity found in 60.5%. Logistic regression analysis showed self-rated health assessed as better compared with age-mates [OR =1.718 (1.080-2.725)] and being physically active [OR =1.879 (1.026-3.436)] as the most significantly associated with PIMs use.
conclusionsThe use of PIMs among older patients in our setting was high with NSAIDs being the most frequently used medications. An interdisciplinary approach, of medication review by pharmacists', working with physicians may improve prescribing practices among older persons. Therefore, it is necessary to create public health awareness on the use of PIMs among older persons.
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