Intervention with the screening tool of older persons potentially inappropriate prescriptions/screening tool to alert doctors to right treatment criteria in elderly residents of a chronic geriatric facility: A randomized clinical trial

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 62, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1658-1665

  Frankenthal, Dvora ^a   Lerman, Yaffa ^a,b   Kalendaryev, Edward ^c   Lerman, Yehuda ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c Givat Hashlosha Geriatric Hospital   (Israel)

Author keywords

elderly adults; intervention; START criteria; STOPP criteria

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CODEINE PHOSPHATE; CORTICOSTEROID; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIPHENOXYLATE; DIPYRIDAMOLE; GLIBENCLAMIDE; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; HYPNOTIC AGENT; LOPERAMIDE; METFORMIN; MUSCARINIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; PRESCRIPTION DRUG; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR;

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG COST; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FALLING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL INDEPENDENCE MEASURE; GERIATRIC HOSPITAL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INAPPROPRIATE PRESCRIBING; INTERVENTION STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARALLEL DESIGN; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCREENING TOOL OF OLDER PERSON POTENTIALLY INAPPROPRIATE PRESCRIPTION; SCREENING TOOL TO ALERT DOCTOR TO RIGHT TREATMENT CRITERIA; SHORT FORM 12; VERY ELDERLY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DISABILITY; DRUG USE; ISRAEL; NURSING HOME; PHARMACIST; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISABILITY EVALUATION; DRUG COSTS; DRUG UTILIZATION REVIEW; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INAPPROPRIATE PRESCRIBING; ISRAEL; MALE; NURSING HOMES; PHARMACISTS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 84919958678     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jgs.12993     Document Type: Article

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