Background: Potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs) are defined as those medicines
having a greater potential risk than benefit for older adults. In this systematic literature …

The 2015 American Geriatrics Society (AGS) Beers Criteria are presented. Like the 2012
AGS Beers Criteria, they include lists of potentially inappropriate medications to be avoided …

Recent pharmacoepidemiologic studies suggest that pharmacological neuroenhancement
(pNE) and mood enhancement are globally expanding phenomena with distinctly different …

Background High-risk prescribing and preventable drug-related complications are common
in primary care. We evaluated whether the rates of high-risk prescribing by primary care …

PURPOSE Avoidable hospitalizations due to adverse drug events and high-risk prescribing
are common in older people. Primary care physicians prescribe most on-going medicines …

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES To examine the prevalence of potentially inappropriate
medication (PIM) prescribing and its association with healthcare utilization and related …

Background Despite concerns about racial differences on adherence to prescribed
medication rigimens among older adults, current information about nonadherence among …

Background: Inappropriate prescribing is a well-known clinical problem in nursing home
residents, but few interventions have focused on reducing inappropriate medication use …

The Beers Criteria are a valuable tool for clinical care and quality improvement but may be
misinterpreted and implemented in ways that cause unintended harms. This article …

Resumen AL-AZAYZIH, Ahmad; ALAMOORI, Rawan y ALTAWALBEH, Shoroq M. Potentially
inappropriate medications prescribing according to Beers criteria among elderly outpatients …