The use of STOPP/START criteria as a screening tool for assessing the appropriateness of medications in the elderly population

Expert Review of Clinical Pharmacology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 187-197

  Lam, May P S ^a   Cheung, Bernard M Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Beers criteria; medication safety in the elderly; potentially inappropriate medications; prescription omissions; STOPP START criteria

Indexed keywords

ALPRAZOLAM; AMITRIPTYLINE; AMITRIPTYLINE PLUS PERPHENAZINE; CARISOPRODOL; CHLORDIAZEPOXIDE; CHLORPROPAMIDE; CHLORZOXAZONE; CYCLOBENZAPRINE; DEXTROPROPOXYPHENE; DICYCLOVERINE; DIGOXIN; DIPYRIDAMOLE; DISOPYRAMIDE; DOXEPIN; FLURAZEPAM; HYDROCHLOROTHIAZIDE PLUS METHYLDOPA; INDOMETACIN; LORAZEPAM; MEPROBAMATE; METAXALONE; METHOCARBAMOL; METHYLDOPA; OXAZEPAM; OXYBUTYNIN; PENTAZOCINE; RESERPINE; TEMAZEPAM; TRIAZOLAM; TRIMETHOBENZAMIDE; UNINDEXED DRUG;

COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMORBIDITY; DRUG HALF LIFE; DRUG SAFETY; HUMAN; PATIENT SAFETY; POLYPHARMACY; PRESCRIPTION; REVIEW;

ADVERSE DRUG REACTION REPORTING SYSTEMS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DRUG INTERACTIONS; DRUG UTILIZATION REVIEW; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INAPPROPRIATE PRESCRIBING; MEDICATION ERRORS; PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; POLYPHARMACY; PRESCRIPTION DRUGS;

EID: 84858421618     PISSN: 17512433     EISSN: 17512441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/ecp.12.6     Document Type: Review

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