Potentially Inappropriate Prescribing of Oral Solid Medications in Elderly Dysphagic Patients.

ABSTRACT: Pharmaceutical formulations suitable for dysphagic patients are not always commercially available, motivating caregivers to crush tablets or open capsules to facilitate swallowing. Since this action may modify the characteristics of the medicine, it should be considered potentially inappropriate. This paper is the first to focus on how hospitalization affected the rate of potentially inappropriate prescriptions (PIPs) and the incidence of dosage form-related PIPs in elderly patients with dysphagia. Data was collected by reviewing patient medical records in the Italian National Research Center on Aging of Ancona. The therapy at admission and discharge was analysed in terms of: inappropriate drug associations, inappropriate drugs for dysphagic patients, inappropriate dosage forms and inappro

SUBMITTER: Sestili M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6321461 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature