Inappropriate prescribing defined by STOPP and START criteria and its association with adverse drug events among hospitalized older patients: A multicentre, prospective study.
Mathumalar Loganathan FahrniMohd Taufiq AzmyEzlina UsirNoorizan Abd AzizYahaya HassanPublished in: PloS one (2019)
The majority of the older patients who were admitted to secondary care for acute illnesses were potentially exposed to IP. Approximately a quarter of the patients were prescribed with PIMs, which were plausibly linked with preventable ADEs that directly caused or contributed to hospitalization.
Keyphrases
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- liver failure
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