ReviewHealthcare (Basel, Switzerland)2023
Prevalence of Potentially Inappropriate Prescriptions According to the New STOPP/START Criteria in Nursing Homes: A Systematic Review.
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- The current view of potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs) among older adults in Saudi Arabia: a systematic review.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2023Pooled it
- Electronic Decision Support for Deprescribing in Older Adults Living in Long-Term Care: A Stepped-Wedge Cluster Randomized Trial.JAMA network open · 2025Trial
- Identification of Training Needs and Development of a Work-Integrated Training Program for Aged Care On-Site Pharmacists: Protocol for a Co-Design Study.JMIR research protocols · 2026Article
- Network-Based, Cross-Sectional Analysis of Drug-Related Problems Reveals a Strong Association of Possible Inappropriate Medication and Clinical Outcomes in Romanian Elderly Nursing Home Residents.Medical sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Frailty and polypharmacy among geriatric home care patients: an epidemiological analysis and implications for optimised care.BMC nursing · 2025Article
- Person-centred medicine in the care home setting: feasibility testing of a complex intervention.BMC primary care · 2025Article
- Potentially inappropriate medicines for older people: consensus-based lists.Australian prescriber · 2025Review
- Benzodiazepine use in Spain: risks and perspectives on the current situation and proposals for their rational use.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2025Article
- Enhancing medication appropriateness: Insights from the STOPP (Screening Tool of Older Persons' Prescriptions) criteria version 3 on prescribing practices among the older adults in Pakistan.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2025Article
- Implementation of pharmacist recommendations following medication reviews in aged care.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2025Article
- Exploring virtual delivery of academic detailing to general practitioners compared with in-person delivery: a qualitative study.BMJ open quality · 2024Article
- Prevalence of potentially inappropriate medications and prescription dynamics in elderly hospitalized patients in Spain.BMC geriatrics · 2024Observational
- Multidisciplinary medication review during older patient hospitalization according to STOPP/START criteria reduces potentially inappropriate prescriptions: MoPIM cohort study.BMC geriatrics · 2024Article
- Person-centred medicine in the care home setting: development of a complex intervention.BMC primary care · 2024Article
- Identification of Barriers for Active Disease Management and of Medication-Related Problems through Therapeutic Patient Education in Older Home-Care Patients.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Investigating the impact of a pharmacist intervention on inappropriate prescribing practices at hospital admission and discharge in older patients: a secondary outcome analysis from a randomized controlled trial.Therapeutic advances in drug safety · 2024Article
- Attitudes of Older Adult Patients and Caregivers Towards Deprescribing of Medications in Ethiopia.Clinical interventions in aging · 2023Article
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Abstract
The demand for long-term care is expected to increase due to the rising life expectancy and the increased prevalence of long-term illnesses. Nursing home residents are at an increased risk of suffering adverse drug events due to inadequate prescriptions. The main objective of this systematic review is to collect and analyze the prevalence of potentially inadequate prescriptions based on the new version of STOPP/START criteria in this specific population. Databases (PubMed, Web of Science and Cochrane) were searched for inappropriate prescription use in nursing homes according to the second version of STOPP/START criteria. The risk of bias was assessed with the STROBE checklist. A total of 35 articles were assessed for eligibility. One hundred and forty nursing homes and more than 6900 residents were evaluated through the analysis of 13 studies of the last eight years. The reviewed literature returned prevalence ranges between 67.8% and 87.7% according to the STOPP criteria, according to START criteria prevalence ranged from 39.5% to 99.7%. The main factors associated with the presence of inappropriate prescriptions were age, comorbidities, and polypharmacy. These data highlight that, although the STOPP/START criteria were initially developed for community-dwelling older adults, its use in nursing homes may be a starting point to help detect more efficiently inappropriate prescriptions in institutionalized patients. We hope that this review will help to draw attention to the need for medication monitoring systems in this vulnerable population.
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