Abstract
Aim: To evaluate the use of potentially inappropriate medicines in elderly inpatients in a tertiary care teaching hospital. Methods: We searched research articles in pub med, google scholar using key words inappropriate prescription in elderly, beer's criteria, stop/start criteria in last 10 years. Prescriptions were assessed for the use of potentially inappropriate medications in geriatric patients by using American Geriatric Society Beer's criteria (2012) . Prevale Results : nce of at least one potential inappropriate prescription ( PIP) in elderly is 41.57 %. Prevalence of adverse drug event ( ADE ) due to PIP is 43 % . Conclusion: Use of inappropriate medicines is highly prevalent in elderly patients.
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