Comunidad en enfermedades crónicas

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What is polypharmacy? A systematic review of definitions Publicado el 19/10/2017 por Diana Gosálvez Prados: Multimorbidity and the associated use of multiple medicines (polypharmacy), is common in the older population. Despite this, there is no consensus definition for polypharmacy. A systematic review was conducted to identify and summarise polypharmacy definitions in existing literature.
aged, comorbidity, inappropriate prescribing, multimorbidity, polypharmacy, systematic review, urm
Polypharmacy and specific comorbidities in university primary care settings. Publicado el 06/02/2017 por Diana Gosálvez Prados: Polypharmacy is associated with adverse events and multimorbidity, but data are limited on its association with specific comorbidities in primary care settings. We measured the prevalence of polypharmacy and inappropriate prescribing, and assessed the association of polypharmacy with specific comorbidities.
comorbidities, inappropriate prescribing, multimorbidity, pharmacoepidemiology, polypharmacy
Deprescribing in older people Publicado el 29/09/2016 por Diana Gosálvez Prados: Older people with chronic disease have great potential to benefit from their medications but are also at high risk of harm from their medications. The use of medications is particularly important for symptom control and disease progression in older people. Under-treatment means older people can miss out on the potential benefits of useful medications, while over-treatment (polypharmacy) puts them at increased risk of harm. Deprescribing attempts to balance the potential for benefit and harm by ...
deprescribing, inappropriate prescribing, older adults
STOPP/START criteria for potentially inappropriate prescribing in older people: version 2 Publicado el 30/11/2015 por Diana Gosálvez Prados: The purpose of this article is to create a screening tool of older people's prescriptions (STOPP) and screening tool to alert to right treatment (START) criteria were first published in 2008. Due to an expanding therapeutics evidence base, updating of the criteria was required.
inappropriate prescribing, older people, stopp/start criteria
START (screening tool to alert doctors to the right treatment)—an evidence-based screening tool to detect prescribing omissions in elderly patients Publicado el 29/10/2013 por Diana Gosálvez Prados: Inappropriate prescribing encompasses acts of commission i.e. giving drugs that are contraindicated or unsuitable, and acts of omission i.e. failure to prescribe drugs when indicated due to ignorance of evidence base or other irrational basis e.g. ageism. There are considerable published data on the prevalence of inappropriate prescribing; however, there are no recent published data on the prevalence of acts of omission. The aim of this study was to calculate the prevalence ...
acute illness, elderly, inappropriate prescribing, start screening tool
STOPP (Screening Tool of Older Person's Prescriptions) Publicado el 29/10/2013 por Diana Gosálvez Prados: 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 events (ADEs) in older patients presenting for hospital admission.
elderly, inappropriate prescribing, screening tool, stopp

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