Potentially Inappropriate Medication Prescribing Detected by Computer Algorithm among Older Patients: Results from the MAPT Study.

ABSTRACT: (1) Background: Some medications may be dangerous for older patients. Potentially inappropriate medication prescribing (PIP) among older patients represents a significant cause of morbidity. The aim of this study was to create an algorithm to detect PIP in a geriatric database (Multidomain Alzheimer Preventive Trial (MAPT) study), and then to assess the algorithm construct validity by comparing the prevalence of PIP and associated factors with literature data. (2) Methods: An algorithm was constructed to detect PIP and was based on different explicit criteria among which the European list of potentially inappropriate medications (EU(7)-PIM), the STOPP and START version 2 tools. For construct validity assessment, logistic mixed-effects model repeated measures analyses were used to identify

SUBMITTER: Pages A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8628967 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature