Background: Older people with cognitive impairment, including dementia and delirium, are
high users of acute care services internationally. Potentially inappropriate medication (PIM) …

La utilización inapropiada de los medicamentos en los pacientes mayores tiene graves
consecuencias en su salud—aumento del riesgo de sufrir reacciones adversas o síndromes …

Background Older patients are commonly prescribed multiple medications therefore;
medication misadventures are common and expected among older patients. The use of …

Aims The aim was to investigate the prevalence of potentially inappropriate medication use
among older people in Sweden according to five different published sets of explicit criteria …

Purpose The aim of this study was to measure the prevalence of potentially inappropriate
medications (PIMs) by using the EU (7)-PIM list, STOPP (Screening Tool of Older Persons' …

Rationale, aims and objectives The objective of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of
potentially inappropriate prescriptions (PIP) and the association with polypharmacy (more …

Introduction Medication-related problems can cause serious adverse drug events (ADEs)
that may lead to hospitalization of the patient. There are multiple screening methods to …

Rationale, aims and objectives Explicit criteria have been used worldwide to identify
suboptimal prescribing such as potentially inappropriate prescriptions (PIPs). The objective …

Abstract Background Potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs) are often found in high
proportion among the elderly population. The STOPP criteria have been suggested to detect …

OBJECTIVE To assess the agreement of several different measures of potentially
inappropriate prescribing (PIP) in older people and compare their relationship with patient …