Development of an explicit tool assessing potentially inappropriate medication use in Hong Kong elder patients.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Potentially inappropriate medication (PIM) use has adverse effects on health, particularly in elder patients. Various country-specific explicit criteria have been developed to measure the appropriateness of prescribing worldwide. However, it is difficult to apply the criteria developed from other regions to measure and guide the local prescribing practice in Hong Kong. This study aims to develop a Hong Kong-specific PIM assessing tool from previously published criteria and validate this tool using the modified Delphi method.

Methods

A disease-oriented Hong Kong-specific preliminary PIM list was developed based on nine sets of reference criteria selected from a literature review. Any medication or medication class appeared in at least two sets of the reference crit

SUBMITTER: Zhang H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7856727 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature