Factors associated with potentially inappropriate medications use by the elderly according to Beers criteria 2003 and 2012

International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 316-324

  Baldoni, André De Oliveira ^a   Ayres, Lorena Rocha ^a   Martinez, Edson Zangiacomi ^a   Dewulf, Nathalie De Lourdes Souza ^b   Dos Santos, Vânia ^a   Pereira, Leonardo Régis Leira ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Beers criteria; Brazil; Elderly; Pharmacoepidemiology; Potentially inappropriate medications

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; AMITRIPTYLINE; CAPTOPRIL; CLONAZEPAM; CLONIDINE; DEXCHLORPHENIRAMINE; DIAZEPAM; DICLOFENAC; FLUOXETINE; HYDROCHLOROTHIAZIDE; METFORMIN; NON PRESCRIPTION DRUG; ORPHENADRINE; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT; SIMVASTATIN;

ABDOMINAL CRAMP; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEERS CRITERIA; BITTER TASTE; BRAZIL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSTIPATION; COUGHING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIARRHEA; DRUG CLASSIFICATION; DRUG MISUSE; DRUG SAFETY; EDEMA; EPISTAXIS; FEMALE; FLATULENCE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEARTBURN; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; MALE; MUSCLE CRAMP; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MYALGIA; NAUSEA; NIGHTMARE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OUTPATIENT; PATIENT SAFETY; PHARMACOEPIDEMIOLOGY; POLYPHARMACY; POTENTIALLY INAPPROPRIATE MEDICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF MEDICATION; SLEEP DISORDER; SOMNOLENCE; STOMACH PAIN; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; TACHYCARDIA; UNEASINESS; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; URINE INCONTINENCE; XEROSTOMIA; DRUG-RELATED SIDE EFFECTS AND ADVERSE REACTIONS; INAPPROPRIATE PRESCRIBING; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DRUG-RELATED SIDE EFFECTS AND ADVERSE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INAPPROPRIATE PRESCRIBING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NONPRESCRIPTION DRUGS; POLYPHARMACY; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84899904509     PISSN: 22107703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11096-013-9880-y     Document Type: Article

References (42)

1. WHO (World Health Organization). The uses of Epidemiology in the study of the elderly. Geneva: WHO; 1984. (technical report series, 706).
2. Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística. Séries estatísticas & séries históricas. O Instituto. [Statistics and Historical Series. The Institute.] Rio de Janeiro. http://www.ibge.gov.br/series-estatisticas/ (2010). Accessed 16 July 2012.
3. Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística. Sala de Imprensa: Tábuas Completas de Mortalidade 2008. [Press room: Complete Mortality tables 2008]. http://www.ibge.gov.br/home/presidencia/noticias/noticia- visualiza.php?id-noticia=1507&id-pagina=1 (2009). Accessed 21 Nov 2012.
4. Gallagher P, Barry P, O'mahony D. Inappropriate prescribing in the elderly. J Clin Pharm Ther. 2007;32:113-21.
5. Castro Filho JM, Marcopito LF, Castelo A. Perfil de utilizaç ão de medicamentos por idosos em área urbana do Nordeste do Brasil. [Medication use patterns among elderly people in urban area in Northeastern Brazil]. Rev Saúde Públ. 2004;38:557-64. (Pubitemid 39242947)
6. Coelho Filho AIL, Uchoa E, Costa MFL. Estudo epidemiológico de base populacional sobre uso de medicamentos entre idosos na Região Metropolitana de Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brasil. [A population-based study on use of medication by the elderly in Greater Metropolitan Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil]. Cad Saude Publica. 2006;22:2657-67. (Pubitemid 44847072)
7. Mosegui GB, Rozenfeld S, Veras RP, Vianna CM. Avaliação da qualidade do uso de medicamentos em idosos [Quality assessment of drug use in the elderly]. Rev Saúde Públ. 1999;33:437-44.
8. Loyola Filho AI, Uchoa E, Firmo Jde O, Lima-Costa MF. Estudo de base populacional sobre o consumo de medicamentos entre idosos: Projeto Bambuí. [A population-based study on use of medications by elderly Brazilians: the Bambuí Health and Aging Study]. Cad Saude Publica. 2005;21:545-53.
9. Lemos M, Souza NR, Mendes MMR. Perfil da população idosa cadastrada em uma Unidade de Saúde da Família. [Profile of elderly people enrolled in a family health unit]. Reme Rev Min de Enferm. 2006;10:218-25.
10. Fick DM, Cooper JW, Wade WE, Waller JL, Maclean JR, Beers MH. Updating the Beers criteria for potentially inappropriate medication use in older adults. Arch Intern Med. 2003;163:2716-24. (Pubitemid 37517412)
11. Beers MH, Ouslander JG, Rollingher I, et al. Explicit criteria for determining inappropriate medication use in nursing homes residents. Arch Intern Med. 1991;151:1825-32.
12. Beers MH. Explicit criteria for determining potentially inappropriate medication use by the elderly. An update. Arch Intern Med. 1997;157:1531-6. (Pubitemid 27305197)
13. The American Geriatrics Society. Beers criteria update expert panel. AGS updated Beers criteria for potentially inappropriate medication use in older adults. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2012;2012(60):616-31.
14. World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Drug Statistics Methodology. ATC/DDD Index 2012. Oslo: Norwegian Institute of Public Health. Available from http://www.whocc.no/atcddd/. (2009). Accessed in 04 April 2013.
15. Brasil. RDC no 138, de 29 de maio de 2003. Dispõe sobre o enquadramento de medicamentos categoria de venda livre. [Regulates the framework of the over-the-counter medications category]. Diário Oficial da União, Brasília, DF, 29 maio 2003.
16. Brasil. Portaria no 344, de12 de maio 1998. Dispõe sobre os medicamentos de Controle Especial. [Regulates special control medications] Diário Oficial da União, Brasília, DF, 12 de maio de 1998.
17. Varallo FR, Capucho HC, Planeta CS, Mastroianni PC. Safety assessment of potentially inappropriate medications (pim) use in older people and the factors associated with hospital admission. J Pharm Pharm Sci. 2011;14:283-90.
18. Allison PD. Logistic regression using the SAS system: theory and application. Cary: SAS Books; 2001.
19. Landis JR, Koch GG. The measurement of observer agreement for categorical data. Biometrics. 1977;33:159-74. (Pubitemid 8054849)
20. Brasil, More Health: a right for everyone: 2008 - 2011. Ministério da Saúde, Secretaria-Executiva. - 3. ed. rev. - Brasília : Ministério da Saúde, 2010.138 p. : il. - (Série C. Projetos, Programas e Relatórios) ISBN 978-85-334-1635-2.
21. Seade, Fundação Sistema Estadual de Análise de Dados. Região Administrativa de Ribeirão Preto. http://www.seade.gov.br/ produtos/perfil/perfilMunEstado.php (Accessed 21 Nov 2012).
22. Fadare JO, Agboola SM, Opeke OA, Alabi RA. Prescription pattern and prevalence of potentially inappropriate medications among elderly patients in a Nigerian rural tertiary hospital. Ther Clin Risk Manag. 2013;6:115-20.
23. Chen LL, Tangiisuran B, Shafie AA, Hassali MA. Evaluation of potentially inappropriate medications among older residents of Malaysian nursing homes. Int J Clin Pharm. 2012;34:596-603.
24. Opondo D, Eslami S, Visscher S. Inappropriateness of medication prescriptions to elderly patients in the primary care setting: a systematic review. PLoS ONE. 2012;7:e43617.
25. Goltz L, Kullak-Ublick GA, Kirch W. Potentially inappropriate prescribing for elderly outpatients in Germany: a retrospective claims data analysis. Int J Clin Pharmacol Ther. 2012;50:185-94.
26. Ghadimi H, Esmaily HM, Wahlstrom R. General practitioners' prescribing patterns for the elderly in a province of Iran. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2011;20:482-7.
27. Zaveri HG, Mansuri SM, Patel VJ. Use of potentially inappropriate medicines in elderly: a prospective study in medicine outpatient department of a tertiary care teaching hospital. Indian J Pharmacol. 2010;42:95-8.
28. Nishtala PS, Bagge ML, Campbell AJ, Tordoff JM. Potentially inappropriate medicines in a cohort of community-dwelling older people in New Zealand. Geriatr Gerontol Int. 26 Mar 2013. doi:10.1111/ggi.12059. (Epub ahead of print).
29. de Oliveira MA, Francisco PM, Costa KS, Barros MB. Selfmedication in the elderly population of Campinas, São Paulo State, Brazil: prevalence and associated factors. Cad Saude Publica. 2012;28:335-45.
30. Amoako EP, Richardson-Campbell L, Kennedy-Malone L. Self-medication with over-the-counter drugs among elderly adults. J Gerontol Nurs. 2003;29:10-5.
31. Onder G, Landi F, Della Vedova C, et al. Moderate alcohol consumption and adverse drug reactions among older adults. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2002;11:385-92. (Pubitemid 35023469)
32. van der Hooft CS, Dieleman JP, Siemes C, Aarnoudse AJ, Verhamme KM, Stricker BH, et al. Adverse drug reaction-related hospitalisations: a population-based cohort study. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2008;17:365-71. (Pubitemid 351566352)
33. Stockl KM, Le L, Zhang S, Harada AS. Clinical and economic outcomes associated with potentially inappropriate prescribing in the elderly. Am J Manag Care. 2010;16:1-10.
34. Micromedex Healthcare Series. http://www-thomsonhc-com.ez67.periodicos. capes.gov.br/micromedex2/librarian/ (2012). Accessed 29 Nov 2012.
35. Bierman AS, Pugh MJ, Dhalla I, Amuan M, Fincke BG, Rosen A, et al. Sex differences in inappropriate prescribing among elderly veterans. Am J Geriatr Pharmacother. 2007;5:147-61. (Pubitemid 47277277)
36. Faustino CG, Passarelli MC, Jacob-Filho W. Potentially inappropriate medications among elderly Brazilian outpatients. Sao Paulo Med J. 2013;131:19-26.
37. Hofer-Dückelmann C. Gender and polypharmacotherapy in the elderly: a clinical challenge. Handb Exp Pharmacol. 2012;214:169-82.
38. Gallagher PF, Barry PJ, Ryan C, Hartigan I, O'Mahony D. Inappropriate prescribing in an acutely ill population of elderly patients as determined by Beers' criteria. Age Ageing. 2008;37:96-101. (Pubitemid 351146983)
39. Johnell K, Fastbom J. Multi-dose drug dispensing and inappropriate drug use: a nationwide register-based study of over 700,000 elderly. Scand J Prim Health Care. 2008;26:86-91. (Pubitemid 351877032)
40. Prudent M, Dramé M, Jolly D, Trenque T, Parjoie R, Mahmoudi R, et al. Potentially inappropriate use of psychotropic medications in hospitalized elderly patients in France: cross-sectional analysis of the prospective, multicentre SAFEs cohort. Drugs Aging. 2008;25:933-46.
41. Castelino RL, Bajorek BV, Chen TF. Targeting suboptimal prescribing in the elderly: a review of the impact of pharmacy services. Ann Pharmacother. 2009;43:1096-106.
42. Smith DH, Perrin N, Feldstein A, Yang X, Kuang D, Simon SR, et al. The impact of prescribing safety alerts for elderly persons in an electronic medical record: an interrupted time series evaluation. Arch Intern Med. 2006;166:1098-104. (Pubitemid 43765181)