Inappropriate prescribing in intermediate care facilities
- 1 April 2021
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Aging Clinical and Experimental Research
- Vol. 33 (4), 1085-1088
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s40520-020-01602-3
Abstract
Inappropriate prescribing for older people is a global healthcare problem. This study aimed to determine the prevalence of older patients receiving potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs) at admission and discharge at the intermediate care facility of ASP Pio Albergo Trivulzio. We consecutively enrolled 100 patients aged >= 65 from December 2017 to May 2018 and evaluated PIMs with the 2015 version of the Beers criteria. We found a significant reduction in the prescription of drugs to avoid and proton pump inhibitors (PPIs), while patients with at least one psychotropic drug to avoid or to use with caution significantly increased. The inappropriate prescription of PPIs was mainly associated with the use of heparin. Optimizing PPI and psychotropic drug prescriptions should be considered for deprescribing inappropriate polypharmacy in intermediate care facilities.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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