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Prescribing of inappropriate medication in nursing home residents in Germany according to a French consensus list: a cross‐sectional cohort study

Marita Kölzsch, Kirsten Kopke, Thomas Fischer, Werner Hofmann, Ronny Kuhnert, Juliane Bolbrinker, Adelheid Kuhlmey, Dagmar Dräger, Reinhold Kreutz

Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety · 2010 · 22 citations · 21 references

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Abstract

The present analysis demonstrates that about one out of five elderly NHRs received at least one inappropriate drug prescription. Additional studies may aim to establish a list of frequently prescribed inappropriate drugs for Germany.

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Updating the Beers Criteria for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use in Older Adults

Donna M. Fick, James W. Cooper, William E. Wade et al. · Archives of Internal Medicine · 2003 · 2.4K citations

Randomized trial to determine the effect of nebivolol on mortality and cardiovascular hospital admission in elderly patients with heart failure (SENIORS)

Marcus Flather, Marcelo C. Shibata, Andrew J.S. Coats et al. · European Heart Journal · 2005 · 1.6K citations · Full text

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

Paul Gallagher, Cristín Ryan, Shauna E. Byrne et al. · International Journal of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics · 2008 · 1.5K citations

Explicit criteria for determining potentially inappropriate medication use by the elderly. An update

Mark H. Beers · Archives of Internal Medicine · 1997 · 1.2K citations

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Explicit Criteria for Determining Inappropriate Medication Use in Nursing Home Residents

Mark H. Beers · Archives of Internal Medicine · 1991 · 1.2K citations

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