Evaluation of potentially inappropriate medications in a Taiwanese elderly population using Beers, STOPP and PIM-TAIWAN criteria
- In: Posters
- At: Dublin (Ireland) (2013)
- Type: Poster
- By: WU, Chih-Yuan (Taiwan Adventist Hospital, Taipei City, China Taiwan)
- Co-author(s): Chen, Li-Chun (Taiwan Adventist Hospital, Taipei City, China Taiwan)
Hsieh, Ming-Jen (Taiwan Adventist Hospital, Taipei City, China Taiwan)
Lee, Horng-Chin (Taiwan Adventist Hospital, Taipei City, China Taiwan) - Abstract:
Background
Inappropriate medication use is a major healthcare issue for the elderly population. However, current available screening tools for potentially inappropriate medications (PIM) such as Beers criteria and STOPP (screening tool of older persons[simplequote] potentially inappropriate prescriptions) have some limitations when applying to the .. The access to the whole abstract and if available the presentation file is available to FIP members and to congress participants of that specific congress.
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