A systematic review of studies of the STOPP/START 2015 and American Geriatric Society Beers 2015 criteria.

CONCLUSIONS: PIP/PIM/PPO rates are high. RCTs are needed of interventions to: (1) reduce new/existing PIPs/PIMs/PPO prescriptions, (2) identify and reduce prescriptions causing adverse effects, and (3) enable regulatory authorities to closely monitor inappropriate prescriptions in real time and reduce rates. The substantial differences between individual medications identified by Beers and STOPP/START need investigating whether they are due to: content of the criteria lists, 2. medication availability in individual countries, 3.if authors applied all or subsets of criteria, or 4. physician prescribing preferences.
PMID: 31096900 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Current Aging Science - May 19, 2019 Category: Geriatrics Tags: Curr Aging Sci Source Type: research