The assessment of care practices and the critical, constructive analysis of the errors detected therein can be used as a tool that will enable the continuous improvement of procedures and the increased clinical safety of the patients. The collaboration of all the personnel involved in the circuits with known and shared objectives can enable a more exact dimension to be obtained of our current care situation in aspects for the clinical safety of patients.
PIMs are frequent in our context. The original Beers criteria, if not adapted to the local drug catalogue, underestimated the frequency of PIM in the elderly population studied.
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