Potentially inappropriate medication use among institutionalized elderly individuals in southeastern Brazil

Potentially inappropriate medication use in elderly Japanese patients.

BACKGROUND Modified Beers criteria for elderly Japanese patients were developed in 2008 by consensus among 9 experts to reflect regional clinical practice and available medications in Japan. Since then, many physicians and pharmacists have expressed interest in obtaining more information about the criteria and alternative drug choices. OBJECTIVE This study examined the incidence, health care ...

Beers' criteria for potentially inappropriate medication use in the elderly.

BEST TOOL: The adapted Beers’ Criteria (HCFA Guidelines for Potentially Inappropriate Medications in the Elderly) identifies medications noted by an expert panel to have potential risks that outweigh potential benefits of the drug. The criteria are appropriate for persons older than 65 years of age, regardless of their level of frailty. The criteria provide a rating of severity for adverse outc...

Potentially inappropriate medication use among elderly home care patients in Europe.

CONTEXT Criteria for potentially inappropriate medication use among elderly patients have been used in the past decade in large US epidemiological surveys to identify populations at risk and specifically target risk-management strategies. In contrast, in Europe little information is available about potentially inappropriate medication use and is based on small studies with uncertain generalizab...

Inappropriate Medication Use among the Elderly: a Systematic Review

Title: Inappropriate Medication Use among the Elderly: a Systematic Review

s excluded? The authors state that the axes of the search equation were “population, intervention and outcome” yet none of the search terms pertain to intervention or outcomes. The authors do not present any results that pertain to the use of inappropriate prescribing criteria as an intervention or on the outcomes of using such drugs. It would appear that the authors have only conducted a revie...