Evaluation of clarity of the STOPP/START criteria for clinical applicability in prescribing for older people: a quality appraisal study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Appropriate prescribing in older people continues to be challenging. Studies still report a high prevalence of inappropriate prescribing in older people. To reduce the problem of underprescribing and overprescribing in this population, explicit drug optimisation tools like Screening Tool of Older Persons' potentially inappropriate Prescriptions/Screening Tool to Alert to Right Treatment (STOPP/START) have been developed. The aim of this study was to evaluate the clinical applicability of STOPP/START criteria in daily patient care by assessing the clarity of singular criteria.

Design

Quality appraisal study.

Methods

For each of the 114 STOPP/START criteria V.2, elements describing the action (what/how to do), condition (when to do) and explanat

SUBMITTER: Sallevelt BTGM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7045170 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature