Potentially inappropriate medication use among older adults with cognitive impairment and dementia attending primary care‐based memory clinics
Rishabh Sharma, Linda Lee, Feng Chang, Tejal Patel · 2025
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Rishabh Sharma and co-authors compare two drug safety checklists in a 2025 study at a Canadian memory clinic. Some drugs harm older adults more than they help, and people with dementia face extra risk. The team reviewed records of forty-four patients with mild impairment or dementia seen in 2023.
Two standard tools were applied to each record: the 2023 Beers list and the 2023 STOPP list. Beers flagged at least one risky drug in about forty-eight percent of patients, while STOPP flagged about twenty-seven percent. Beers found fifty risky prescriptions in all, against thirty-one for STOPP. Having nine or more health conditions tracked strongly with flagged drugs under Beers. The authors urge clinics to review drug lists with a set tool.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Rishabh Sharma, Linda Lee, Feng Chang, Tejal Patel |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |