[HTML][HTML] Polypharmacy stewardship: a novel approach to tackle a major public health crisis

R Daunt, D Curtin, D O'Mahony - The Lancet Healthy Longevity, 2023 - thelancet.com
With growing global concern regarding medication-related harm, WHO launched a global
patient safety challenge, Medication Without Harm, in March, 2017. Multimorbidity …

[HTML][HTML] Factors associated with potentially inappropriate prescriptions and barriers to medicines optimisation among older adults in primary care settings: a systematic …

Z Xu, X Liang, Y Zhu, Y Lu, Y Ye, L Fang… - Family medicine and …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Factors associated with potentially inappropriate prescriptions and barriers to medicines
optimisation among older adults in primary care settings: a systematic review - PMC Back to Top …

[HTML][HTML] Factors associated with polypharmacy and the high risk of medication-related problems among older community-dwelling adults in European countries: a …

L Ye, J Yang-Huang, CB Franse, T Rukavina… - BMC geriatrics, 2022 - Springer
Background Polypharmacy can be defined as using five or more medications
simultaneously.“Medication-related problems”, an extension of polypharmacy, includes …

[HTML][HTML] Potentially inappropriate medication and attitudes of older adults towards deprescribing

AB Achterhof, Z Rozsnyai, E Reeve, KT Jungo… - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Introduction Multimorbidity and polypharmacy are current challenges when caring for the
older population. Both have led to an increase of potentially inappropriate medication (PIM) …

[HTML][HTML] Potentially inappropriate medication including drug-drug interaction and the risk of frequent falling, hospital admission, and death in older adults-results of a …

T Reinhild Haerig, D Krause… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction: With growing age, multiple chronic diseases may result in polypharmacy. Drugs
that should be avoided in older adults are called potentially inappropriate medications (PIM) …

Optimising prescribing in older adults with multimorbidity and polypharmacy in primary care (OPTICA): cluster randomised clinical trial

KT Jungo, AK Ansorg, C Floriani, Z Rozsnyai… - bmj, 2023 - bmj.com
Objective To study the effects of a primary care medication review intervention centred
around an electronic clinical decision support system (eCDSS) on appropriateness of …

[HTML][HTML] Potentially inappropriate medications in older adults—prevalence, trends and associated factors: a cross-sectional study in Saudi Arabia

FF Jabri, Y Liang, TM Alhawassi, K Johnell, J Möller - Healthcare, 2023 - mdpi.com
(1) Background: Potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs) in older adults are associated
with drug-related problems, adverse health consequences, repeated hospital admissions …

Barriers and enablers of older adults initiating a deprescribing conversation

NJ Ailabouni, KR Weir, E Reeve, JT Turner… - Patient Education and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Objective To examine older adults' perceptions and identify barriers and enablers to
initiating a conversation about stopping medication (s) with their healthcare provider …

[HTML][HTML] Reduction of potentially inappropriate medication in the elderly: Results of a cluster-randomized, controlled trial in German primary care practices (RIME)

H Rudolf, U Thiem, K Aust, D Krause… - Deutsches Ärzteblatt …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Medications with an unfavorable risk–benefit profile in the elderly, and for which
there are safer alternatives, are designated as potentially inappropriate medications (PIM) …

[HTML][HTML] The prevalence and prescribing patterns of benzodiazepines and Z-drugs in older nursing home residents in different European countries and Israel …

A Lukačišinová, D Fialová, NM Peel, RE Hubbard… - BMC geriatrics, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Background Benzodiazepines (BZDs) and Z-drugs have high potential for
developing frequent adverse drug events in older adults (eg, psychomotor sedation, drug …