Assessing medication appropriateness in a long-term elderly care setting

• At: Glasgow (Scotland) (2018)
• Type: Poster
• Poster code: POS-HPS-086
• By: FENECH CARUANA, Tiziana (University of Malta, Department of Pharmacy)
• Co-author(s): Tiziana Fenech Caruana: Department of Pharmacy, University of Malta, Malta
  Lilian M. Azzopardi: Department of Pharmacy, University of Malta, Malta
  Marise Gauci: Department of Pharmacy, University of Malta, Malta
  
• Abstract:

  Background

  Incidence of preventable adverse drug events in long-term care facilities for the elderly is higher than that in ambulatory care.

  Methods

  The criteria were chosen on the basis of being recently updated, European, locally used and already validated by the source. The STOPP tool, consisting of 80 criteria defining inappropriate prescribing,
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