Prescribing in the Older Adult Reference List
Updating the Beers Criteria for PotentiallyInappropriate Medication Use in Older Adults Results of a US Consensus Panel of Experts.
Donna M. Fick, PhD, RN; James W. Cooper, PhD, RPh; William E. Wade, PharmD, FASHP, FCCP;Jennifer L. Waller, PhD; J. Ross Maclean, MD; Mark H. Beers, MD
Arch Intern Med. 2003;163:2716-2724
Inter-rater reliability of STOPP (Screening Tool of Older Persons' Prescriptions) and START (Screening Tool to Alert doctors to Right Treatment) criteria amongst physicians in six European countries.
Gallagher P, Baeyens JP, Topinkova E, Madlova P, Cherubini A, Gasperini B, Cruz-Jentoft A, Montero B, Lang PO, Michel JP, O'Mahony D.Age Ageing. 2009 May 12.
[Epub ahead of print]
Hamilton HJ. Inappropriate Prescribing and adverse drug events in older people. BMC Geriatrics (2009). Accessed at www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2318/9/5
Brandt N. Geriatric Polypharmacy: Unraveling the Mystery. Adv Stud Med. 2006;6(4):182-188.


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