STOPP (Screening Tool of Older Persons' potentially inappropriate Prescriptions): application to acutely ill elderly patients and comparison with Beers' criteria

Gallagher, Paul; O’Mahony, Denis

doi:10.1093/ageing/afn197

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STOPP (Screening Tool of Older Persons' potentially inappropriate Prescriptions): application to acutely ill elderly patients and comparison with Beers' criteria

Published in Age and Ageing • Oct 1, 2008

Authors:

Paul Gallagher

Denis O’Mahony

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: STOPP (Screening Tool of Older Persons' potentially inappropriate Prescriptions) is a new, systems-defined medicine review tool. We compared the performance of STOPP to that of established Beers' criteria in detecting potentially inappropriate medicines (PIMs) and related adverse drug ...

Subject

Medicine

Beers Criteria

Interquartile range

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