With an ageing population, safe medication use in older people is becoming even more important. Older people are widely acknowledged to be at higher risk of medication-related problems, and it may be argued that those with chronic renal disease are particularly at risk, as many medications require dose reduction or should be avoided completely in these cases. Jones and Bhandari report the preva...

INTRODUCTION Polypharmacy and inappropriate prescriptions are prominent prescribing issues with elderly patients. Beers criteria and other guidelines have been developed to assist in the reduction of potentially inappropriate medications prescribed to elderly patients. The objectives of this study were to assess the prescribing pattern for elderly Nigerian outpatients and estimate the prevalenc...

The 2015 American Geriatrics Society (AGS) Beers Criteria are presented. Like the 2012 AGS Beers Criteria, they include lists of potentially inappropriate medications to be avoided in older adults. New to the criteria are lists of select drugs that should be avoided or have their dose adjusted based on the individual's kidney function and select drug-drug interactions documented to be associate...

BACKGROUND Multi-morbidity and polypharmacy of the elderly population enhances the probability of elderly in residential long-term care facilities experiencing inappropriate medication use. OBJECTIVES The aim is to systematically review literature to assess the prevalence of inappropriate medication use in residential long-term care facilities for the elderly. METHODS Databases (MEDLINE, EM...

OBJECTIVE To determine the frequency of potential drug-disease interaction in elderly patients in family practice. To assess which drugs and diagnoses are associated with a high risk related to drug-disease interaction and whether there are gender- or age-related differences. METHODS In routinely recorded electronic patient records, patients at least 65 years old with at least one diagnosis n...

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BACKGROUND The Beers criteria identify inappropriate use of medications in older adults. The number of and risk for adverse events from these medications are unknown. OBJECTIVE To estimate the number of and risk for emergency department visits for adverse events involving Beers criteria medications compared with other medications. DESIGN Nationally representative, public health surveillance...

INTRODUCTION Potentially inappropriate prescribing (PIP) is frequent and problematic in older patients. Identifying PIP is necessary to improve prescribing quality; ideally, this should be performed at the population level. Screening Tool of Older Persons' potentially inappropriate Prescriptions/Screening Tool to Alert doctors to Right Treatment (STOPP/START) and Beers criteria were developed t...