Background Inappropriate medication use is common in the elderly and the risks associated
with their use are well known. The term deprescribing has been utilised to describe the …

Background Medication review is often recommended to optimize medication use. In clinical
practice it is mostly operationalized as an intervention without co-interventions during a short …

Purpose The aim of the study was to develop a European list of potentially inappropriate
medications (PIM) for older people, which can be used for the analysis and comparison of …

Background Certain drugs are classified as potentially inappropriate medications (PIM) for
the elderly because they carry an increased risk of adverse drug events in this patient group …

Objectives To examine:(1) changes in polypharmacy in 1997, 2002, 2007 and 2012 and;(2)
changes in potentially inappropriate prescribing (PIP) prevalence and the relationship …

Objective: Older people experience more concurrent illnesses, are prescribed more
medications and suffer more adverse drug events than younger people. Many drugs …

Background: Polypharmacy (ie, the use of multiple medications and/or the administration of
more medications than are clinically indicated, representing unnecessary drug use) is …

Inappropriate prescribing is particularly common in older patients and is associated with
adverse drug events (ADEs), hospitalization, and wasteful utilization of resources. We …

Prescription of medicines is a fundamental component of the care of elderly people, and
optimisation of drug prescribing for this group of patients has become an important public …

The older population, composed of adults aged 65 years or older, is the fastest growing
segment of the United States population. The Administration of Aging of the United States …