High-risk medications in older patients with trauma: a cross-sectional study of risk mitigation

Conclusion: Beers Criteria medications were not discontinued during trauma admissions. Using the Beers Criteria as a process indicator for quality improvement in trauma care may provide interdisciplinary trauma teams an opportunity to audit patient medications and stop potentially harmful medications in a vulnerable population.
PMID: 30907565 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Canadian Journal of Surgery - March 26, 2019 Category: Surgery Authors: Lester E, Dykstra M, Grant C, Fawcett V, Tsang B, Widder S Tags: Can J Surg Source Type: research