ArticleInternational journal of clinical pharmacy2020
Potentially inappropriate medications in Chinese community-dwelling older adults.
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- The prevalence of disability in older adults with multimorbidity: a meta-analysis.Aging clinical and experimental research · 2024Pooled it
- Prevalence of Use of Potentially Inappropriate Medications Among Older Adults Worldwide: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.JAMA network open · 2023Pooled it
- Tools for Identifying Potentially Inappropriate Prescriptions for Children and Their Applicability in Clinical Practices: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2022Pooled it
- Prevalence of Polypharmacy and Potentially Inappropriate Medications Use in Elderly Chinese Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2022Pooled it
- Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use in Older Adults: Concordance Among the Chinese and AGS/Beers and STOPP Criteria.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Trajectories Associated With the Use and Deprescription of Benzodiazepines and Z-Drugs in a Network of Geriatric Outpatient Clinics.Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety · 2026Article
- Geographic and socioeconomic differences in potentially inappropriate medication among older adults - applying a simplified analysis of individual heterogeneity and discriminatory accuracy (AIHDA) for basic comparisons of healthcare quality.BMC health services research · 2025Article
- Prevalence and factors associated with potentially inappropriate medications in elderly stroke patients: A comparison of Beers 2019 and 2023 criteria.Saudi pharmaceutical journal : SPJ : the official publication of the Saudi Pharmaceutical Society · 2025Article
- Incidence of Potentially Inappropriate Prescribing: Longitudinal Investigation of Outpatient EHR Prescriptions.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2025Article
- Prevalence of Multiple Chronic Conditions in Older Adults with Undiagnosed Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias in Primary Care.Clinical interventions in aging · 2025Article
- Family caregivers' administration of medications at the end-of-life in China: a qualitative study.BMC palliative care · 2024Article
- Construction and application of medication reminder system: intelligent generation of universal medication schedule.BioData mining · 2024Article
- Trends in commonly used and potentially inappropriate medications in older Korean patients with polypharmacy.BMC geriatrics · 2024Article
- Associated adverse health outcomes of polypharmacy and potentially inappropriate medications in community-dwelling older adults with diabetes.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2023Article
- Overuse of medications in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review.Bulletin of the World Health Organization · 2023Article
- Comparison of the prevalence and nature of potentially inappropriate medication use in geriatric outpatients between tertiary and community healthcare settings: a multicenter cross-sectional study.International journal of clinical pharmacy · 2022Article
- Potentially inappropriate medications in older Chinese outpatients based on the Beers criteria and Chinese criteria.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2022Article
- The patterns and implications of potentially suboptimal medicine regimens among older adults: a narrative review.Therapeutic advances in drug safety · 2022Review
- Based on the Beers Criteria 2019 Edition Over-the-Counter Drugs Risk Confirmation of Elderly Chinese.BioMed research international · 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
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Abstract
Background There is a lack of data on the prevalence of potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs) in community-dwelling older adults in China. Objective To assess the prevalence of potentially inappropriate medication in community dwelling older adults in China and to investigate risk factors associated with the use of such medication. Setting Ambulatory Care Clinic of Xiangya Hospital, Central South University. Method A cross-sectional retrospective review of prescriptions for older patients (aged ≥ 65 years) was performed using the 2019 American Geriatrics Society (AGS) Beers Criteria and the 2017 Chinese Criteria. We only assessed potentialli inappropriate medications independently from diagnosis and drug-drug interactions. Each patient was classified as PIM-user or non-PIM-user, according to whether a patient took at least one potentially inappropriate medication. Main outcome measure Prevalence of potentially inappropriate medication based on the two criteria. Results A total of 8477 medications among 1874 elderly patients were examined over the study period from January 1 to December 31, 2018. The Chinese Criteria detected significantly more PIM-users than the AGS Beers Criteria (50.6% vs 35.0%, P < 0.001), and also a higher percentage of inappropriate medication in prescribed medications (14.7% vs 8.5%, P < 0.001). Benzodiazepines, anticholinergics, antipsychotics, and insulin were the most frequently prescribed classes by both criteria. Alprazolam (47.7%) was the most frequently found inappropriate medicine based on the 2019 AGS Beers Criteria compared to clopidogrel (42.2%) based on the Chinese Criteria. The number of medications was a significant risk factor to the use of potentially inappropriate medication in both criteria. Conclusion The prevalence of the use of potentially inappropriate medication in Chinese community-dwelling older adults is high, and explicit criteria are a useful tool to evaluate the prescription of such medication in the elderly.
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