STOPP (Screening Tool of Older Persons Prescriptions) and START (Screening Tool to Alert doctors to Right Treatment). Consensus validation - Concepedia

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STOPP (Screening Tool of Older Persons Prescriptions) and START (Screening Tool to Alert doctors to Right Treatment). Consensus validation

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2008

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Paul Gallagher, Cristín Ryan, Shauna E. Byrne, Julia Kennedy, David O’Mahony

International Journal of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Abstract

STOPP/START is a valid, reliable and comprehensive screening tool that enables the prescribing physician to appraise an older patient's prescription drugs in the context of his/her concurrent diagnoses.