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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11889/7152| Title: | Evaluating inappropriate medication prescribing among elderly patients in Palestine using the STOPP/ START Criteria | Authors: | Abukhalil, Abdallah Damin Al-Imam, Siham Yaghmour, Mohammad Abushama, Raghad Saad, Laith Falana, Hiba H. Naseef, Hani A. |
Keywords: | STOPP/START criteria;Older people - Drug use;Medication errors - Prevention;Polypharmacy;Drugs - Prescribing;Potential prescribing omissions;Potentially inappropriate medications;Potentially inappropriate prescribing | Issue Date: | 2022 | Journal: | Clinical interventions in aging | Abstract: | Elderly patients suffer from chronic diseases and are prone to polypharmacy and potentially inappropriate prescribing (PIP). This study aimed to identify potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs) and potential prescribing omissions (PPOs) among elderly patients in a tertiary care hospital setting and to estimate the prevalence of polypharmacy. | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11889/7152 | DOI: | 10.2147/CIA.S382221 |
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