STOPP/START criteria for potentially inappropriate prescribing in older people: version 3.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

STOPP/START is a physiological systems-based explicit set of criteria that attempts to define the clinically important prescribing problems relating to potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs-STOPP criteria) and potential prescribing omissions (PPOs-START criteria). The previous two versions of STOPP/START criteria were published in 2008 and 2015. The present study describes the revised and updated third version of the criteria.

Methods

A detailed system-by-system review of the published literature from April 2014 to March 2022 was undertaken with the aim of including clinically important new explicit PIM and PPO criteria and removing any criteria considered to be no longer correct or outdated. A panel of 11 academic physicians with recognized expertise in geriat

SUBMITTER: O'Mahony D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10447584 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature