ArticleClinical interventions in aging2019
Relationship Between Potentially Inappropriate Medications And The Risk Of Hospital Readmission And Death In Hospitalized Older Patients.
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- Association of potentially inappropriate medications with rehospitalisation and death within three months in older patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis.International journal of clinical pharmacy · 2026Pooled it
- Potentially inappropriate prescribing and its associations with health-related and system-related outcomes in hospitalised older adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis.British journal of clinical pharmacology · 2021Pooled it
- Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use in Older Adults: Concordance Among the Chinese and AGS/Beers and STOPP Criteria.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Screening criteria of potentially inappropriate medications and associations of exposure timing with incident hospital admissions among older adults in a rural community hospital.BMC geriatrics · 2025Article
- Association Between Inappropriate Prescribing According to the 2023 Beers Criteria and Different Health Outcomes: A 1-Year Longitudinal Study in Community-Dwelling Older Adults.Drugs - real world outcomes · 2025Article
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- The Role of a Clinical Pharmacist in the Identification of Potentially Inadequate Drugs Prescribed to the Geriatric Population in Low-Resource Settings Using the Beers Criteria: A Pilot Study.Pharmacy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Potentially Inappropriate Medications in Hospitalized Older Patients in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia Using 2023 Beers Criteria: A Retrospective Multi-Centric Study.Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2024Article
- Potentially inappropriate medication use is associated with increased risk of incident disability in healthy older adults.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2023Article
- The Impact of Potentially Inappropriate Medications and Polypharmacy on 3-Month Hospital Readmission among Older Patients: A Retrospective Cohort Study from Malaysia.Geriatrics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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- Evaluation of potentially inappropriate medications for the elderly according to beers, STOPP, START, and Chinese criteria.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2023Article
- Overuse of medications in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review.Bulletin of the World Health Organization · 2023Article
- Enhancing the quality of prescribing practices for older adults discharged from the emergency department in Rhode Island.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2022Article
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- Machine learning for predicting readmission risk among the frail: Explainable AI for healthcare.Patterns (New York, N.Y.) · 2022Article
- Prevalence of potentially inappropriate medications and association with comorbidities in older adults with diabetes in an outpatient visitation setting.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Prevalence and Predictors of Potentially Inappropriate Medications Among Patients Aged ≥65 Years on Hospital Admissions in Kuwait.Clinical interventions in aging · 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
- 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
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Abstract
objectiveThis study aimed to compare the prevalence of potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs) among hospitalized elderly patients using Beers and Chinese criteria and identify the correlation between PIMs and the risk of hospital readmission and death.
methodsThis study was conducted on geriatric patients aged ≥65 years at Beijing Fuxing Hospital between June 2015 and December 2017. The Beers criteria of 2015 and the Chinese criteria of 2017 were used to detect PIMs. Follow-ups were conducted for 12-36 months (or until patients' death, if it came sooner). Cox proportional-hazards models were used to explore the correlations between PIM use and the risk of hospital readmission and death.
resultsOf 508 patients, 352 (69.3%) and 339 (66.7%) had at least one PIM identified using the Beers criteria and the Chinese criteria, respectively. Proton-pump inhibitors in the Beers criteria and clopidogrel in the Chinese criteria were the most leading PIMs. PIMs identified using the Beers criteria were a risk factor for the all-cause hospital readmission. After adjusting for age, gender, comorbidity, and so forth, PIM use was still an indicator of rehospitalization. PIM grouping defined using the Chinese criteria was not associated with hospital readmission. PIM grouping defined using either criteria was not associated with all-cause death.
conclusionThe study showed a high prevalence of PIM use in China. PIMs defined using the Beers criteria increased the risk of hospital readmission. Clinicians should pay more attention to PIMs, carry out routine PIM assessment, and reduce adverse health outcomes in elderly patients.
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