Cost avoidance of pharmacist-led deprescribing using STOPPFrail for older adults in nursing homes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Screening Tool of Older Persons Prescriptions in Frail adults with limited life expectancy (STOPPFrail) criteria aim to reduce inappropriate/unnecessary medications in frail older adults, which should minimise adverse drug events and additional healthcare expenditure. Little is known about the economic outcomes of applying these criteria as an intervention.

Aim

To evaluate cost avoidance of pharmacist-led application of STOPPFrail to frail older nursing home residents with limited life expectancy.

Method

Pharmacist-identified STOPPFrail-defined potentially inappropriate medications that were deprescribed by patients' general practitioners were assigned a rating by a multidisciplinary panel, i.e. the probability of an adverse drug event occurring if the

SUBMITTER: Hurley E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11399282 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature