STOPP (Screening Tool of Older Persons' potentially inappropriate Prescriptions): Application to acutely ill elderly patients and comparison with Beers' criteria

Age and Ageing

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 673-679

  Gallagher, Paul ^a   O'Mahony, Denis ^a  

^a University College Cork and INFANT Centre   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Elderly; Inappropriate prescribing; Screening tool; STOPP

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; AMITRIPTYLINE; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; COLCHICINE; CORTICOSTEROID; DIGOXIN; DILTIAZEM; DOXAZOSIN; MORPHINE; MUSCARINIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; THIAZIDE DIURETIC AGENT; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; VASODILATOR AGENT; VERAPAMIL; WARFARIN;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; ARTICLE; BEER'S CRITERIA; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CRITERION VARIABLE; DELIRIUM; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; DRUG MEGADOSE; FALLING; FEMALE; FEMUR FRACTURE; FRACTURE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPONATREMIA; HYPOTENSION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICATION ERROR; MENTAL DETERIORATION; NEPHROTOXICITY; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; OSTEOPOROSIS; PEPTIC ULCER; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCREENING TOOL OF OLDER PERSON'S POTENTIALLY INAPPROPRIATE PRESCRIPTION; SIDE EFFECT; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING; VERTEBRA FRACTURE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADMITTING DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DRUG INTERACTIONS; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MEDICAL RECORDS; PRESCRIPTION DRUGS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 56749164053     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afn197     Document Type: Article

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