Health care-associated infections (HCAIs) are infections that occur while receiving health
care, developed in a hospital or other health care facility that first appear 48 hours or more …

Longer human lives have led to a global burden of late-life disease. However, some older
people experience little ill health, a trait that should be extended to the general population …

Background: Despite potential harm that can result from polypharmacy, real-world data on
polypharmacy in the setting of heart failure (HF) are limited. We sought to address this …

An adverse drug reaction (ADR) is an unintended response to a drug that is noxious and the
reaction has a causal relationship to the drug 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. It is disturbing that∼ 3.6% of all …

Purpose To establish a consensus on both explicit and implicit criteria in order to identify
potentially inappropriate prescribing (PIP) in French older people aged 75 years and over or …

Background Adverse drug reactions (ADRs) are the major cause of medication-related
hospital admissions in older patients living in the community. This study aimed to develop …

Aim An emerging approach to reducing hospital adverse drug events is the use of predictive
risk scores. The aim of this systematic review was to critically appraise models developed for …

Aims We aimed to develop a standardized chart review method to identify drug‐related
hospital admissions (DRA) in older people caused by non‐preventable adverse drug …

Objective Concurrent polypharmacy and potentially-inappropriate-medication (PIMs) use
with antidepressants in older adults is understudied. We investigated the prevalence and …

Background. Despite the prevalence of multimorbidity among African American (AA) older
adults, little information exists on correlates of polypharmacy (using 5+ medications) in AA …