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ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2022

Potentially Inappropriate Medication and Polypharmacy in Nursing Home Residents: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Raquel Díez, Raquel Cadenas, Julen Susperregui, Ana M Sahagún, Nélida Fernández, Juan J García, Matilde Sierra, Cristina López

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Article in Journal of clinical medicine, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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8 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Raquel DíezPharmacology, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, Institute of Biomedicine (IBIOMED), University of León, 24071 León, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-3729-5431
Raquel CadenasPharmacology, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, Institute of Biomedicine (IBIOMED), University of León, 24071 León, Spain.
Julen SusperreguiApplied Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, University of León, 24071 León, Spain.
Ana M SahagúnPharmacology, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, Institute of Biomedicine (IBIOMED), University of León, 24071 León, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-3311-4226
Nélida FernándezPharmacology, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, Institute of Biomedicine (IBIOMED), University of León, 24071 León, Spain.
Juan J GarcíaPharmacology, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, Institute of Biomedicine (IBIOMED), University of León, 24071 León, Spain.ORCID 0000-0001-7821-9502
Matilde SierraPharmacology, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, Institute of Biomedicine (IBIOMED), University of León, 24071 León, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-0208-9542
Cristina LópezPharmacology, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, Institute of Biomedicine (IBIOMED), University of León, 24071 León, Spain.ORCID 0000-0001-6229-9560
Universidad de León · ES

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Inappropriate prescribing in the elderly is a risk factor for higher adverse drugs reactions, hospitalisation, and mortality rates. Therefore, it is necessary to identify irrational prescriptions and implement interventions to improve geriatric clinical practices in nursing homes. This study aimed to examine and compare the prevalence of potentially inappropriate medications in nursing home residents using three different updated criteria: 2019 Beers criteria, PRISCUS list, and v2 STOPP criteria, and to determine the prevalence of potential prescribing omissions according to v2 START criteria. A descriptive, observational, and cross-sectional study design was used. A total of 218 residents were involved in this study. Data on drug use were collected from medical charts. Information was screened with the software CheckTheMeds. Potentially inappropriate medications were present in 96.3%, 90.8%, and 35.3% of residents, according to the STOPP, Beers, and PRISCUS criteria or list, respectively. Inappropriate medication was found to be significantly associated with polypharmacy and severe or moderate drug-drug interactions with the three tools and with pathologies and unnecessary drugs only for STOPP criteria. The most frequent inappropriate medications were benzodiazepines and proton pump inhibitors. A regular use of software to review medications in nursing home residents would help to reduce the risk of these drug-related problems.

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2019 Beers criteriadrug–drug interactionselderlynursing homepolypharmacypotentially inappropriate medicationPRISCUS listv2 STOPP/START criteria

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