[Potentially inappropriate medications in geriatrics: Which tools to detect them?]

[Potentially inappropriate medications in geriatrics: Which tools to detect them?] Presse Med. 2016 Sep 12; Authors: Desnoyer A, Guignard B, Lang PO, Desmeules J, Vogt-Ferrier N, Bonnabry P Abstract BACKGROUND: Potentially inappropriate prescriptions include over-prescription, which refers to prescription of more drugs than clinically needed, mis-prescription which refers to incorrect prescription of a drug that is needed (as per drug, dose, drug interactions, duration of therapy, duplication, follow-up, etc.) and under-prescription which stands for failure to prescribe drugs that are needed. They are associated with adverse drug events, increased use of health-care services, morbimortality and health-care costs, and poorer quality of life. Due to polymorbidity and polypharmacy, potentially inappropriate prescription is common among the elderly. In the last 2 decades, explicit indicators to detect inappropriate prescriptions were developed in geriatrics. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this review is to summarize, compare and critically review existing explicit criteria. DOCUMENTARY SOURCES AND STUDY SELECTION: We conducted a systematic literature search in PubMed, Embase, Cochrane Library and Google Scholar, from January 1991 to November 2015. The following keywords were used: "("inappropriate prescribing" [MeSH Terms] OR "medication errors" [MeSH Terms] AND "potentially inappropriate medications" [MeSH Terms] AND "elderly...
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