The FORTA (Fit fOR The Aged) List 2018: Third Version of a Validated Clinical Tool for Improved Drug Treatment in Older People.

What it found

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The trial behind it

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Who cites it

34 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

1. Current evidence on the impact of medication optimization or pharmacological interventions on frailty or aspects of frailty: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials.European journal of clinical pharmacology · 2021
   Pooled it
2. Effect of pharmacist-led medication reviews on appropriateness of prescribing in patients with dementia - results from the cluster randomized controlled "DemStepCare" study.BMC geriatrics · 2025
   Trial
3. The FORTA (Fit for the Aged) List 2024: Fifth Version of a Validated Clinical Aid for Improved Pharmacotherapy in Older Adults.Drugs & aging · 2025
   Article
4. Prescribing Appropriate Medicines to Older Adults: A Finnish Experience with the Web-Based Meds75+ Database.Drugs & aging · 2024
   Review
5. Potentially Inappropriate Psychotropic Drugs in Nursing Homes: An Italian Observational Study.Drugs & aging · 2024
   Observational
6. Insight into Risk Factors, Pharmacogenetics/Genomics, and Management of Adverse Drug Reactions in Elderly: A Narrative Review.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
   Review
7. [Geriatric traumatological rounds in a primary care hospital].Unfallchirurgie (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2023
   Article
8. The EURO-FORTA (Fit fOR The Aged) List Version 2: Consensus Validation of a Clinical Tool for Improved Pharmacotherapy in Older Adults.Drugs & aging · 2023
   Article
9. Potentially inappropriate prescriptions of antibiotics in geriatric psychiatry-a retrospective cohort study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023
   Article
10. Higher FORTA (Fit fOR The Aged) scores are associated with poor functional outcomes, dementia, and mortality in older people.European journal of clinical pharmacology · 2022
    Article
11. Systematic Review of Risk Factors Assessed in Predictive Scoring Tools for Drug-Related Problems in Inpatients.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022
    Review
12. Task sharing in an interprofessional medication management program - a survey of general practitioners and community pharmacists.BMC health services research · 2022
    Article
13. A scoping review of the changing landscape of geriatric medicine in undergraduate medical education: curricula, topics and teaching methods.European geriatric medicine · 2022
    Article
14. Current practice in benzodiazepine receptor agonists deprescribing on acute geriatric wards: a cohort study.BMC geriatrics · 2022
    Article
15. Optimising treatment expectations in chronic lower back pain through observing others: a study protocol for a randomised clinical trial.BMJ open · 2022
    Article
16. Development of a medication review tool for residents in Korean long-term care facilities.Therapeutic advances in chronic disease · 2022
    Article
17. [Aspects of multimodal pain therapy in old age].Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie · 2021
    Article
18. Association of Polypharmacy with Colorectal Cancer Survival Among Older Patients.The oncologist · 2021
    Article
19. MediQuit, an Electronic Deprescribing Tool for Patients on Polypharmacy: Results of a Feasibility Study in German General Practice.Drugs & aging · 2021
    Article
20. Incorporating pharmacokinetic data into personalised prescribing for older people: challenges and opportunities.European geriatric medicine · 2021
    Review

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Authors and funding

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Abstract

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