STOPP/START criteria for potentially inappropriate prescribing in older people: version 2.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Screening tool of older people's prescriptions (STOPP) and screening tool to alert to right treatment (START) criteria were first published in 2008. Due to an expanding therapeutics evidence base, updating of the criteria was required.

Methods

We reviewed the 2008 STOPP/START criteria to add new evidence-based criteria and remove any obsolete criteria. A thorough literature review was performed to reassess the evidence base of the 2008 criteria and the proposed new criteria. Nineteen experts from 13 European countries reviewed a new draft of STOPP & START criteria including proposed new criteria. These experts were also asked to propose additional criteria they considered important to include in the revised STOPP & START criteria and to highlight any criteria from th

SUBMITTER: O'Mahony D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4339726 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature