Therapeutic Duplicates in a Cohort of Hospitalized Elderly Patients: Results from the REPOSI Study

• Published in: Drugs & aging Vol. 33; no. 9; pp. 647 - 654
• Main Authors: Pasina, Luca, Astuto, Sarah, Cortesi, Laura, Tettamanti, Mauro, Franchi, Carlotta, Marengoni, Alessandra, Mannucci, Pier Mannuccio, Nobili, Alessandro
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 01.09.2016; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Cross-Sectional Studies; Drug Interactions; Drug Prescriptions - standards; Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions - epidemiology; Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions - prevention & control; Female; Geriatrics/Gerontology; Hospital Departments; Hospitalization - statistics & numerical data; Humans; Inappropriate Prescribing - prevention & control; Inappropriate Prescribing - statistics & numerical data; Internal Medicine; Italy - epidemiology; Male; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Patient Discharge - standards; Patient Discharge - statistics & numerical data; Pharmacology/Toxicology; Pharmacotherapy; Polypharmacy; Prevalence; Prospective Studies; Risk; Short Communication; Potential DDIs; Geriatric Ward; Cumulative Illness Rate Scale; Psychotropic Drug; Inappropriate Prescription

Background Explicit criteria for potentially inappropriate prescriptions in the elderly are recommended to avoid prescriptions of duplicate drug classes and to optimize monotherapy within a single drug class before a new agent is considered. Duplicate drug class prescription (or therapeutic duplicat...