Background/Aim. The growing number of older adults means higher medicine utilization. aim the study was to determine frequency and identify risk factors potentially inappropriate medication (PIM) in elderly population with cardiovascular diseases. Methods. retrospective, cross-sectional performed 2018, relevant data were collected during period from January 2016 December 2017. sample included 1...

BACKGROUND Polypharmacy and inappropriate medication prescriptions are associated with increased morbidity and mortality. Most interventions proposed to improve appropriate prescribing are time and resource intensive and therefore hardly applicable in daily clinical practice. OBJECTIVE To test the efficacy of an easy-to-use checklist aimed at supporting the therapeutic reasoning of physicians...

Purpose: To determine the prescribing patterns and occurrence of potentially inappropriate medications (PIM) among elderly outpatients visiting a tertiary hospital in Nigeria. Methods: A retrospective study was carried out among elderly subjects (age ≥ 60 years) who were issued prescriptions in the outpatients department of Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital (OOUTH), Sagamu, Nigeria....

Inappropriate prescribing is the failure to provide the quality of care related to medication use that should be achieved in practice, and encompasses overprescribing, misprescribing, and under prescribing [1]. Inappropriate medicine use has been defined as that which poses greater risk of harms than benefits, especially when safer alternatives exist [2]. Elderly patients, in particular, are su...