Prescription of potentially inappropriate medications in elderly outpatients: a survey using 2015 Japanese Guidelines

• Published in: International journal of clinical pharmacy Vol. 42; no. 2; pp. 579 - 587
• Main Authors: Fujie, Keiko, Kamei, Risa, Araki, Risa, Hashimoto, Koichi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 01.04.2020; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Ambulatory Care - methods; Ambulatory Care - standards; Benzodiazepines; Cross-Sectional Studies; Drug stores; Female; Geriatrics; Humans; Hypnotics; Inappropriate Prescribing - prevention & control; Internal Medicine; Japan - epidemiology; Male; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Multivariate analysis; Patients; Pharmacy; Polypharmacy; Potentially Inappropriate Medication List - standards; Practice Guidelines as Topic - standards; Research Article; Retrospective Studies; Risk Factors; Sedatives; Japan; Dispensing pharmacy; Guideline; Potentially inappropriate medication; Polypharmacy; Outpatient; Japan

Background In recent years, rapid increase of elderly population has become a major social problem in developed countries. They tend to receive an increasing number of prescibed drugs due to multiple illnesses, which might include inappropriate medications, in turn leading to health hazards and risi...