Inter-rater agreement for detection of potentially inappropriate medication according to explicit and implicit STOPP criteria.

ABSTRACT: The Screening Tool of Older Person's Prescriptions (STOPP) is used to detect potentially inappropriate medication. Version 2 includes 80 criteria, whereof two can be considered implicit as their detection primarily relies on the assessor's expertise: (A1) drugs without indication and (A2) drug treatment beyond recommended duration. To explore the inter-rater agreement for detection of explicit and implicit criteria, data on consecutive primary care patients from a previous study (n = 302, 65-99 years of age) were used, including independent assessments of the 78 explicit criteria (23 556 assessments) and the two implicit criteria (604 assessments) by two specialist physicians. Overall, 123 (0.5%) explicit and 10 (2%) implicit criteria were fulfilled according to both physicians. The positi

SUBMITTER: Parodi Lopez N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11773097 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature