Efficacy of pharmacists' assessment and intervention based on Screening Tool for Older Persons' Appropriate Prescriptions for Japanese compared with Screening Tool for Older Persons' Appropriate Prescriptions for Japanese criteria version 2 in older patients with cardiovascular disease

Abstract

STOPP-J detected significantly more patients with PIM than STOPP criteria version 2, and pharmacists' assessment and intervention based on STOPP-J were suggested to be effective for detecting and correcting PIM. Geriatr Gerontol Int 2019; 19: 1101-1107.