Potentially inappropriate drug use in older people: a nationwide comparison of different explicit criteria for population-based estimates.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

The aim was to investigate the prevalence of potentially inappropriate medication use among older people in Sweden according to five different published sets of explicit criteria from Europe and the US.

Methods

This was a nationwide cross-sectional, register-based study across the whole of Sweden in 2008. All individuals aged 65 years and older were included (n = 1 346 709, both community-dwelling and institutionalized persons). We applied all drug-specific criteria included in the 2012 Beers Criteria, the Laroche's list, the PRISCUS list, the NORGEP criteria and the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare criteria. The main outcome was the potentially inappropriate drug use according to each set of criteria, separately and combined. Multivariate logistic regressio

SUBMITTER: Morin L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4541979 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature