Quality of prescribing in older people from a broad family physician perspective: a descriptive pilot study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To investigate the quality of drug treatment in older people from a broad family physician perspective, and to provide evidence for power calculations in full-scale studies on prescribing quality.

Design

Descriptive, retrospective pilot study.

Setting

A primary healthcare centre in Sweden.

Participants

123 consecutive patients, ≥65 years, with a non-urgent physician consultation in January 2016.

Measures

The drug treatment was assessed by a physician as either appropriate or suboptimal, taking individual factors like morbidity, life expectancy and concurrent drug treatment into account, and preceded by the application of 493 criteria from three screening tools for Potentially Inappropriate Medications (PIMs) and Potential Prescribing Omissions

SUBMITTER: Parodi Lopez N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6549657 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature