STOPP/START criteria for potentially inappropriate medications/potential prescribing omissions in older people: origin and progress

D O'Mahony - Expert review of clinical pharmacology, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Introduction: STOPP (Screening Tool of Older Persons' Prescriptions) and
START (Screening Tool to Alert to Right Treatment) are explicit criteria that facilitate …

Polypharmacy management in the older adults: a sco** review of available interventions

M Kurczewska-Michalak, P Lewek… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Background: Polypharmacy paves the way for non-adherence, adverse drug reactions,
negative health outcomes, increased use of healthcare services and rising costs. Since it is …

Potentially inappropriate medications defined by STOPP criteria and the risk of adverse drug events in older hospitalized patients

H Hamilton, P Gallagher, C Ryan, S Byrne… - Archives of internal …, 2011 - jamanetwork.com
Background Previous studies have not demonstrated a consistent association between
potentially inappropriate medicines (PIMs) in older patients as defined by Beers criteria and …

Appropriate prescribing in elderly people: how well can it be measured and optimised?

A Spinewine, KE Schmader, N Barber, C Hughes… - The Lancet, 2007 - thelancet.com
Prescription of medicines is a fundamental component of the care of elderly people, and
optimisation of drug prescribing for this group of patients has become an important public …

Potentially inappropriate medication use among elderly home care patients in Europe

D Fialová, E Topinková, G Gambassi, H Finne-Soveri… - Jama, 2005 - jamanetwork.com
ContextCriteria for potentially inappropriate medication use among elderly patients have
been used in the past decade in large US epidemiological surveys to identify populations at …

Multiple diseases and polypharmacy in the elderly: challenges for the internist of the third millennium

A Nobili, S Garattini, PM Mannucci - Journal of comorbidity, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
The pattern of patients admitted to internal medicine wards has dramatically changed in the
last 20–30 years. Elderly people are now the most rapidly growing proportion of the patient …

Prevalence of potentially inappropriate prescribing in an acutely ill population of older patients admitted to six European hospitals

P Gallagher, PO Lang, A Cherubini… - European journal of …, 2011 - Springer
Purpose Potentially inappropriate prescribing is common in older people presenting to
hospital with acute illness in Ireland. The aim of this study was to determine if this …

Associations between potentially inappropriate medications and adverse health outcomes in the elderly: a systematic review and meta-analysis

XX **ng, C Zhu, HY Liang, K Wang… - Annals of …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: Adverse drug outcomes in the elderly have led to the development of lists of
potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs), such as the Beers criteria, and these PIMs …

Age-related pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic changes and related risk of adverse drug reactions

A Corsonello, C Pedone… - Current medicinal …, 2010 - ingentaconnect.com
Aging is known to be associated with an increased prevalence of multiple chronic diseases,
which frequently causes the use of complex therapeutic regimens. The aging process is …