Explicit criteria for determining inappropriate medication use in nursing home residents. UCLA Division of Geriatric Medicine

The Norwegian General Practice (NORGEP) criteria for assessing potentially inappropriate prescriptions to elderly patients

“…A panel that includes few participants will definitely decrease the reliability of the Delphi process [39]. We do not think that these concerns are valid for our study because our panel included more participants than commonly adopted and our panel was also constituted by three different clinical specialist groups [7].…”

“…During the last decade, assessments of inappropriate prescriptions to elderly patients have commonly been based on the Beers criteria [7,8], last updated by Fick and co-workers in 2003 [9]. These criteria concern inappropriateness of single drugs or drug dosage with or without consideration of diagnosis, and are principally formulated for the US setting.…”

Queda entre idosos no Brasil e sua relação com o uso de medicamentos: revisão sistemática

“…Este resultado está de acordo com o exposto por meta-análises ou revisões realizadas em outros países 8,44,45,46 , além do clássico estudo de Beers 20,21 .…”

“…Há mais de duas décadas estão sendo realizados estudos sobre o uso de medicamentos inapropriados em geriatria 20,21,22,23 , dentre eles estão as pesquisas de Beers et al 20 , Beers 21 e Fick et al 22 , que estabeleceram critérios para definir quais fármacos seriam inadequados para os idosos, pois seus riscos superam os benefícios nessa faixa etária. Contudo, no Brasil, ainda são largamente utilizados medicamentos impróprios na farmacoterapia geriátrica 24,25,26 .…”

Factors associated with use of medications with potential to impair cognition or cholinesterase inhibitors among Alzheimer's disease patients

“…The most studied of these is the Beers list of explicit criteria for inappropriate prescribing in older patients. These criteria, first published in 1991 [2] and updated in 1997 [3] and 2003 [4] were originally developed for nursing home patients. However, they have been used to evaluate patients in board and care facilities [5], outpatient settings [6,7], and home health care settings [8] as well as nursing homes [9].…”