Valentina Buda, Andreea Prelipcean, Minodora Andor, Liana Dehelean, Olivia Dalleur, Simona Buda, Lavinia Spatar, Maria Cristiana Mabda, Maria Suciu, Corina Danciu, Anca Tudor, Lucian Petrescu, Carmen Cristescu
BACKGROUND: Rational use of medications and monitoring of prescriptions in elderly patients is important to decrease the number and duration of hospitalizations, emergency medical consultations, mortality, as well as medical costs. PURPOSE: To identify potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs) and potential prescription omissions (PPOs), and determine their prevalence based on the Screening Tool of Older Persons' potentially inappropriate Prescriptions (STOPP) v2 criteria and Screening Tool to Alert doctors to Right Treatment (START) v2 criteria for patients aged >65 years...
2020: Clinical Interventions in Aging