Inappropriate Prescriptions in Older People-Translation and Adaptation to Portuguese of the STOPP/START Screening Tool.

ABSTRACT: Inappropriate prescribing, which encompasses the prescription of potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs) and potential prescribing omissions (PPOs), is a common problem for older people. The STOPP/START tool enables general practitioners, who are the main prescribers, to identify and reduce the incidence of PIMs and PPOs and appraise an older patient's prescribed drugs during the diagnosis process to improve the clinical care quality. This study aimed to translate and validate the STOPP/START screening tool to enable its use by Portuguese physicians. A translation-back translation method including the validation of the obtained Portuguese version was used. Intra- and inter-rater reliability and agreement analyses were used in the validation process. A dataset containing the informatio

SUBMITTER: Monteiro L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9180165 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature