Analysis of inappropriate medication prescribing in Slovenian elderly patients based on the Beers and Laroche criteria

Prevalence of potentially inappropriate prescribing in older adults in Central and Eastern Europe: a systematic review and synthesis without meta-analysis

“…All studies were cross-sectional, except that of Stuhec et al 52 , which was an uncontrolled before-after study. Different care settings were equally represented across studies-acute [49][50][51][53][54][55][56][57][58] , community 48,[59][60][61][62][63][64] and outpatient 52,[65][66][67][68][69][70] settings in seven studies, and LTC setting in six studies 48,[71][72][73][74][75] . Only three studies were conducted in upper-middle-income countries: Serbia (2) 62,75 and Albania (1) 54 .…”

“…Only three studies were conducted in upper-middle-income countries: Serbia (2) 62,75 and Albania (1) 54 . The rest of the studies were conducted in high-income countries: Croatia (5) [56][57][58]68,70 , Slovenia (5) 52,60,66,67,74 , Czechia (4) 53,59,69,72 , Poland (3) 61,63,64 , Slovakia (3) [49][50][51]55,73 , Romania (2) 48 , Hungary (1) 71 and Lithuania (1) 65 . There were no studies from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Montenegro, North Macedonia or the territory of Kosovo.…”

“…Two studies were conducted internationally 53,59 , but only the data from a country in CEE were included in the review. Twelve studies were conducted up to 2010 [49][50][51]53,55,58,59,61,63,64,67,69,70,74 , and fifteen were conducted from 2010 onward 48,52,54,56,57,60,62,65,66,68,[71][72][73]75 .…”

“…The use of a standardized data collection form was reported in only four studies 57,59,62,74 . In most studies, only prescription medications were considered 48,[52][53][54][55]58,[60][61][62][65][66][67][68][69][70]73,75 .…”

“…The polypharmacy prevalence ranged from 32.6 to 91.7% [49][50][51][53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60][62][63][64][65][66][71][72][73][74] . It was not reported in seven studies 48,61,67,69,70,75 , and only adults with polypharmacy were included in two studies 52,68 .…”