Potentially Inappropriate Medications Defined by STOPP Criteria and the Risk of Adverse Drug Events in Older Hospitalized Patients | Zendy

H. Hamilton | Zendy; Paul Gallagher | Zendy; Cristín Ryan | Zendy; Stephen Byrne | Zendy; Denis O’Mahony | Zendy

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Potentially Inappropriate Medications Defined by STOPP Criteria and the Risk of Adverse Drug Events in Older Hospitalized Patients

Author(s) -

H. Hamilton,

Paul Gallagher,

Cristín Ryan,

Stephen Byrne,

Denis O’Mahony

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

archives of internal medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1538-3679

pISSN - 0003-9926

DOI - 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.215

Subject(s) - medicine , beers criteria , odds ratio , confidence interval , medical prescription , dementia , adverse effect , emergency medicine , comorbidity , adverse drug event , polypharmacy , drug , pediatrics , psychiatry , disease , pharmacology

Previous studies have not demonstrated a consistent association between potentially inappropriate medicines (PIMs) in older patients as defined by Beers criteria and avoidable adverse drug events (ADEs). This study aimed to assess whether PIMs defined by new STOPP (Screening Tool of Older Persons' potentially inappropriate Prescriptions) criteria are significantly associated with ADEs in older people with acute illness.

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