Stopp criteria: application in a nursing home and comparison with beers’ criteria

• At: Glasgow (Scotland) (2018)
• Type: Poster
• Poster code: POS-HPS-022
• By: CHEN, Yi-Yen (Taipei City Hospital, Pharmacy)
• Co-author(s): Yi-Yen Chen: Pharmacy, Taipei City Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Province of China
  Chi-Ting Tseng: Pharmacy, Taipei City Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Province of China
  Lih-Chi Chen: Pharmacy, Taipei City Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Province of China
  
• Abstract:

  Background

  STOPP (Screening Tool of Older Persons’ potentially inappropriate Prescriptions) is a screening tool for elderly to detect potentially inappropriate medicines (PIMs). Beers’ criteria is another screening tool to detect PIMs in elderly. Both screening tools are widely used nowadays.

  Methods

  We retrospectively studied 38 patients in a
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