Performance of potentially inappropriate medications assessment tools in older Indian patients with cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Polypharmacy and potentially inappropriate medication (PIM) use are common problems in older adults. Safe prescription practices are a necessity. The tools employed for the identification of PIM sometimes do not concur with each other.

Methods

A retrospective analysis of patients ≥60 years who visited the Geriatric Oncology Clinic of the Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, India from 2018 to 2021 was performed. Beer's-2015, STOPP/START criteria v2, PRISCUS-2010, Fit fOR The Aged (FORTA)-2018, and the EU(7)-PIM list-2015 were the tools used to assess PIM. Every patient was assigned a standardized PIM value (SPV) for each scale, which represented the ratio of the number of PIMs identified by a given scale to the total number of medications taken. The median SPV of all f

SUBMITTER: Kumar S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10807583 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature