Background Criteria to assess the appropriateness of prescriptions might serve as a helpful
guideline during professional training and in daily practice, with the aim to improve a …

Older people are prescribed a disproportionate number of medications. Polypharmacy leads
to reduced compliance, increases the risk of adverse drug effects and may lead to poor …

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 …

Objective To evaluate drug-related problems in the elderly, various lists of potentially
inappropriate medications have been published in North America. Unfortunately, these lists …

Background and objective Inappropriate prescribing is an important and possibly
preventable risk factor for adverse drug reactions (ADRs) in the elderly, and hospital-based …

The objective of this work is to analyze the survival of infliximab, etanercept and adalimumab
in patients who have switched among tumor necrosis factor (TNF) antagonists for the …

1. Older people have substantial interindividual variability in health, disability, age‐related
changes, polymorbidity, and associated polypharmacy, making generalization of prescribing …

The aim of the present work is to compare drug survival and safety of infliximab, etanercept,
and adalimumab (tumor necrosis factor [TNF] antagonists) in spondylarthritis (SpA) with …

Background Modern drugs have made large contributions to better health and quality of life.
Increasing proportions of negative side effects due to extensive pharmacological treatment …

Background: Evidence-practice gaps, adverse medication-related incidents and unplanned
medical admissions to hospital are common in elderly Australians. Many prescribing …