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In order to implement the principles of providing clinically and economically effective care, the current state of healthcare must be evaluated, and challenges must be addressed. As part of a physician's role in such a context, one tool consists of identifying medication-related problems (MRPs) and accordingly implementing best practices and innovative strategies to improve patient healthcare outcomes. The geriatric population is expected to have passed through the natural ageing process and experienced several physiological and biological changes that impact their bodies and lives...

OBJECTIVES: This study examined potentially inappropriate prescribing (PIP) of medication and its association with probable delirium among long-term care (LTC) residents in Ontario, Canada. DESIGN: Population-based cross-sectional study using provincial health administrative data, including LTC assessment data via the Resident Assessment Instrument-Minimum Dataset version 2.0 (RAI-MDS 2.0). SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: LTC residents in Ontario between January 1, 2016, and December 31, 2019...

The STOPP/START criteria are explicit physiologic systems-based criteria that summarize evidence on clinically relevant prescribing problems related to the use of potentially inappropriate medications (STOPP criteria) and potential prescribing omissions (START criteria). The two previous versions of the STOPP/START criteria were published in 2008 and 2015, and their Spanish versions in 2009 and 2015. Version3 of these criteria has just been published in 2023. The aim of this article is to present the Spanish translated version, and to review the use and impact that version2 of 2015 has had in our language...

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INTRODUCTION: Inappropriate drug prescriptions (IP) lead to a high risk of adverse effects, especially for the elderly. Their detection is essential - which can be done using therapeutic lists, including the Stopp/Start scale version 2. METHODS: Observational study - from August 1, 2016, to November 30, 2016, in an advanced geriatric unit at Rouen University Hospital - using the Stopp/Start version 2 list. RESULTS: Eighty-five patients were included, with a ratio of 1...

Potentially inappropriate prescribing (PIP) is a major public health concern with several undesirable health consequences for older adults. In this overview, we aimed to map and gather information from existing literature to provide a better insight into the prevalence of PIP among community dwellers. Electronic databases were searched from their inception to April 2022. The quality of the included systematic reviews (SRs) was assessed using the assessment of multiple systematic reviews checklist. The degree of overlap within the SRs was also evaluated (2% overlap)...

PURPOSE: Personal continuity between patient and physician is a core value of primary care. Although previous studies suggest that personal continuity is associated with fewer potentially inappropriate prescriptions, evidence on continuity and prescribing in primary care is scarce. We aimed to determine the association between personal continuity and potentially inappropriate prescriptions, which encompasses potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs) and potential prescribing omissions (PPOs), by family physicians among older patients...

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Internal medicine specialists, also known as general internal medicine specialists are specialist physicians trained to manage particularly complex or multisystem disease conditions that single-organ-disease specialists may not be trained to deal with. The management of multimorbidity, however, is often complex, and requires specific clinical skills and corresponding experience in appropriate diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. Multimorbidity is associated with a decline in many aspects of health and in consequence with an increase in hospital admissions, polypharmacy, and use of health care and social resouces...

BACKGROUND: Several tools have revealed an association between potentially inappropriate medications (PIM) and adverse outcomes, but the one most fitted for the rural population has not been determined. AIMS: We investigated the performance of the Screening Tool of Older Persons' Prescriptions (STOPP) and Screening Tool to Alert doctors to the Right Treatment (START) in identifying inappropriate prescribing and its association with adverse outcomes among older rural primary health care users...

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AIMS: Older adults are vulnerable to medication-related harm mainly due to high use of medications and inappropriate prescribing. This study aimed to investigate the associations between inappropriate prescribing and number of medications identified at discharge from geriatric rehabilitation with subsequent post-discharge health outcomes. METHOD: REStORing health of acutely unwell adulTs (RESORT) is an observational, longitudinal cohort study of geriatric rehabilitation inpatients...

BACKGROUND: Elderly patients are often polymedicated, and drug-related hospitalizations are common in this population. In our hospital, pharmacists from the mobile geriatric team (MGT) coordinate medication reviews (MR) for elderly patients hospitalized in non-geriatric wards, to prevent iatrogenic. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this work is to determine whether the drug-related origin of hospitalizations can be considered as a targeting criterion for performing MRs. MATERIAL AND METHOD: We conducted a retrospective study of data from patients who received a MGT's MR between March 2021 and December 2022, from a single center of more than 1000 beds...

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PURPOSE: STOPP/START is a physiological systems-based explicit set of criteria that attempts to define the clinically important prescribing problems relating to potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs-STOPP criteria) and potential prescribing omissions (PPOs-START criteria). The previous two versions of STOPP/START criteria were published in 2008 and 2015. The present study describes the revised and updated third version of the criteria. METHODS: A detailed system-by-system review of the published literature from April 2014 to March 2022 was undertaken with the aim of including clinically important new explicit PIM and PPO criteria and removing any criteria considered to be no longer correct or outdated...

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OBJECTIVE: Medication errors can have detrimental effects on patient outcomes, yet there are limited data on the prevalence of potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs) and potential prescribing omissions (PPOs) among older adult inpatients in New Zealand (NZ). This study investigated exposure to PIMs and PPOs in older adults in a New Zealand hospital. METHODS: Electronic medical records of 846 older adults (≥ 65 years) discharged from the Auckland District Health Board between June 2020 and May 2021 were retrospectively reviewed to extract data on sociodemographic, medication and diagnostic information...

BACKGROUND: Potentially inappropriate prescription (PIP) constitutes a risk for the development of adverse effects of a drug that outweigh its benefits, which can be considered inappropriate medication use. OBJECTIVE: To describe the prevalence of PIP in geriatric patients hospitalized at the internal medicine department of a referral hospital in Mexico. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Cross-sectional, descriptive design, with simple allocation of medical records from patients older than 65 years hospitalized between January 2016 and August 2017...

AIMS: Evidence suggests that a high-dose statin loading before a percutaneous coronary revascularization improves outcomes in patients receiving long-term statins. This study aimed to analyse the effects of such an additional statin therapy before surgical revascularization. METHODS AND RESULTS: This investigator-initiated, randomized, double-blind, and placebo-controlled trial was conducted from November 2012 to April 2019 at 14 centres in Germany. Adult patients (n = 2635) with a long-term statin treatment (≥30 days) who were scheduled for isolated coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) were randomly assigned to receive a statin-loading therapy or placebo at 12 and 2 h prior to surgery using a web-based system...