Potentially inappropriate medications use in a psychiatric elderly care hospital: A cross-sectional study using Beers criteria.

ABSTRACT:

Background and aims

Potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs) carry risks that outweigh any potential benefits when compared to safer or more effective alternative treatments. Adverse drug events are more likely to occur in older adults with psychiatric diseases due to multimorbidity, polypharmacy, and age-related changes in drug pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics. The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence and risk factors of PIM use in an aged care hospital's psychogeriatric division, using the American Geriatrics Society Beers criteria 2019.

Methods

This cross-sectional study was conducted on all current inpatients, having a mental disorder and aged ≥65 years, in one elderly care hospital in Beirut, from March to May 2022. Medications, sociodemographic and c

SUBMITTER: Yaghi G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10206279 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature