2011
DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.233
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Inappropriate Medications in Elderly ICU Survivors: Where to Intervene?

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“…Many health professionals often focus on prescribing and administering medicines and patient nonadherence to medicines. Inappropriate prescribing including prescribing potentially inappropriate medicines (PIMS) for older people is common [12][13][14]. PIMS are still prescribed as first line management for vulnerable people even when evidence suggests their use leads to poor outcomes [15,16].…”
Section: The Imperative For Pharmacovigilancementioning
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“…Many health professionals often focus on prescribing and administering medicines and patient nonadherence to medicines. Inappropriate prescribing including prescribing potentially inappropriate medicines (PIMS) for older people is common [12][13][14]. PIMS are still prescribed as first line management for vulnerable people even when evidence suggests their use leads to poor outcomes [15,16].…”
Section: The Imperative For Pharmacovigilancementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Many PIMs and medicines that are actually inappropriate (AIM) are prescribed during the hospital stay, often in intensive care units (ICU) [12,13]. Older people who survive ICU frequently experience polypharmacy, have several transitions to other wards/units during an admission, and are at high risk of AEs after discharge [12]. Morandi et al [12,13] found 85% of older ICU survivors were discharged from hospital on one or more PIMs and > 50% were discharged with one or more AIM.…”
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