Analysis of potentially inappropriate medications (PIM) used in elderly outpatients in departments of internal medicine by using the Screening Tool of Older Persons’ Potentially Inappropriate Prescriptions (STOPP) criteria
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Analysis of potentially inappropriate medications (PIM) used in elderly outpatients departments internal medicine by using the Screening Tool Older Persons’ Potentially Inappropriate Prescriptions (STOPP) criteria
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STOPP (Screening Tool of Older Persons' potentially inappropriate Prescriptions): application to acutely ill elderly patients and comparison with Beers' criteria.
INTRODUCTION STOPP (Screening Tool of Older Persons' potentially inappropriate Prescriptions) is a new, systems-defined medicine review tool. We compared the performance of STOPP to that of established Beers' criteria in detecting potentially inappropriate medicines (PIMs) and related adverse drug events (ADEs) in older patients presenting for hospital admission. METHODS we prospectively stud...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Annals of palliative medicine
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['2224-5839', '2224-5820']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21037/apm-21-799