Prescription of Potentially Inappropriate Drugs for Geriatric Patients and Pharmacists Interventions

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Title: “Prescription of Potentially Inappropriate Drugs for Geriatric Patients and Pharmacists Interventions”

Abstract: Drug therapy in elderly patients, is a controversial and complicated issue, due the convergence of different problems as their frailty and multiple comorbidities, resulting in a higher probability to suffer drug adverse effects and generate higher medication costs. Different tools and guidelines are used in the adequacy of drug prescription in these patients, being Beers Criteria one of the most common. In 2010, we began in our institutions (two geriatric long term and sub-acute care hospitals) a study to improve the prescription of potentially inappropriate drugs based on these criteria. We found that 19% of the medications used were potentially inappropriate drugs prescribed to our patients during 2010; therefore we undertook a program to inform physicians about the possibility of improvement in this area. We provided the physicians with factsheets concerning potentially inappropriate use of drugs in geriatric patients followed by a program of interventions/recommendations from the pharmacists, every time they found prescriptions of potentially inappropriate drugs susceptible to be changed for other more appropriate medications. In the period of our interventions (March-November 2012), the potentially inappropriate drugs prescribed dropped to 14.5%.

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