Consensus guidelines for oral dosing of primarily renally cleared medications in older adults

OBJECTIVES: To establish consensus oral dosing guidelines for primarily renally cleared medications prescribed for older adults.

DESIGN: Literature search followed by a two-round modified Delphi survey.

SETTING: A nationally representative survey of experts in geriatric clinical pharmacy.

PARTICIPANTS: Eleven geriatric clinical pharmacists.

MEASUREMENTS: After a comprehensive literature search and review by an investigative group of six physicians (2 general internal medicine, 2 nephrology, 2 geriatrics), 43 dosing recommendations for 30 medications at various levels of renal function were created. The expert panel rated its agreement with each of these 43 dosing recommendations using a 5-point Likert scale (1=strongly disagree to 5=strongly agree). Recommendation-specific means and 95% confidence intervals were estimated. Consensus was defined as a lower 95% confidence limit of greater than 4.0 for the recommendation-specific mean score.

RESULTS: The response rate was 81.8% (9/11) for the first round. All respondents who completed the first round also completed the second round. The expert panel reached consensus on 26 recommendations involving 18 (60%) medications. For 10 medications (chlorpropamide, colchicine, cotrimoxazole, glyburide, meperidine, nitrofurantoin, probenecid, propoxyphene, spironolactone, and triamterene), the consensus recommendation was not to use the medication in older adults below a specified level of renal function (e.g., creatinine clearance <30 mL/min). For the remaining eight medications (acyclovir, amantadine, ciprofloxacin, gabapentin, memantine, ranitidine, rimantadine, and valacyclovir), specific recommendations for dose reduction or interval extension were made.

CONCLUSION: An expert panel of geriatric clinical pharmacists was able to reach consensus agreement on a number of oral medications that are primarily renally cleared.

Errataetall:

ErratumIn: J Am Geriatr Soc. 2009 Nov;57(11):2179 Dosage error in article text

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2009

Erschienen:

2009

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:57

Enthalten in:

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society - 57(2009), 2 vom: 15. Feb., Seite 335-40

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Hanlon, Joseph T [VerfasserIn]
Aspinall, Sherrie L [VerfasserIn]
Semla, Todd P [VerfasserIn]
Weisbord, Steven D [VerfasserIn]
Fried, Linda F [VerfasserIn]
Good, C Bernie [VerfasserIn]
Fine, Michael J [VerfasserIn]
Stone, Roslyn A [VerfasserIn]
Pugh, Mary Jo V [VerfasserIn]
Rossi, Michelle I [VerfasserIn]
Handler, Steven M [VerfasserIn]

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Consensus Development Conference
Journal Article
Pharmaceutical Preparations
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 02.03.2009

Date Revised 20.10.2021

published: Print-Electronic

ErratumIn: J Am Geriatr Soc. 2009 Nov;57(11):2179 Dosage error in article text

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1111/j.1532-5415.2008.02098.x

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM186000634