Use of a frailty index to identify potentially inappropriate prescribing and adverse drug reaction risks in older patients | Zendy

Shane Cullinan | Zendy; Denis O’Mahony | Zendy; David O’Sullivan | Zendy; Stephen Byrne | Zendy

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Use of a frailty index to identify potentially inappropriate prescribing and adverse drug reaction risks in older patients

Author(s) -

Shane Cullinan,

Denis O’Mahony,

David O’Sullivan,

Stephen Byrne

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

age and ageing

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.014

H-Index - 143

eISSN - 1468-2834

pISSN - 0002-0729

DOI - 10.1093/ageing/afv166

Subject(s) - medicine , medical prescription , drug reaction , adverse effect , adverse drug reaction , drug , emergency medicine , pediatrics , intensive care medicine , pharmacology

potentially inappropriate prescribing (PIP) is a significant problem in health care today. We hypothesise that if doctors were given a single indicator of PIP and adverse drug reaction (ADR) risk on a patient's prescription, it might stimulate them to review the medicines. We suggest that a frailty index (FI) score may be such a suitable indicator.

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