Potentially inappropriate medication use in elderly patients receiving home health care: A retrospective data analysis

Inappropriate Medication in a National Sample of US Elderly Patients Receiving Home Health Care

“…This prevalence is three times as high as that found among ambulatory visits 5,6 and about twice as high as that found among elderly outpatients at two large outpatient centers utilizing electronic health records. 12 Our estimated prevalence is also double the rate found in previous studies of elderly patients admitted to single home health agencies in the US 13,14 and of home care patients in eight European countries. 15 Consistent with previous studies, a small number of medications accounted for a large and clinically significant share of PIM use.…”

Polypharmacy in heart failure: A growing challenge

“…Heart failure patients are at risk of potentially inappropriate medication and dangerous drug interactions due to the number of medications that they are prescribed at the same time (Cannon, Choi et al 2006) and also because of the frequency of hospital admissions in heart failure. The healthcare interface between primary and specialist led care is a common point where medication changes are made and relies on good communication between clinicians and patients to prevent drug omissions and prescription errors (Coleman et al, 2005).…”

“…The first and most frequent definition relates to the number of medications that an individual takes with various minimum drug counts used (Linjakumpu et al, 2002, Cannon et al, 2006. The other common use of 'polypharmacy' refers to the use of potentially inappropriate medications or medications that are not clinically indicated (Hajjar et al, 2005).…”

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

“…Anonimizirana zbirka o ambulantno izdanih zdravilih je prav tako zajemala predvsem starostnike, ki `ivijo doma. Pri raziskavah, kjer so bili dele`i neprimernega predpisovanja vi{ji, so bile analize opravljene s starostniki, ki so bili negibni in so bili dele`ni oskrbe na domu ali so `iveli v domovih za ostarele ali pa so vsi starostniki v vzorcu jemali 2 zdravili ali ve~ (34,35,36,37,38). V eni raziskavi so celo upo{tevali samo starostnike, ki so jemali 5 zdravil ali ve~ (39).…”