Ability to detect potentially inappropriate prescribing in older patients : comparative analysis between PIM-Check and STOPP/STARTv2

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PURPOSE: Potentially inappropriate prescribing (PIP) is a source of preventable adverse drug events. The objective of this study was a comparative analysis (quantitative and qualitative) between two tools used to detect PIP, PIM-Check and STOPP/START.

METHODS: First, a qualitative analysis (QAC) was conducted to evaluate the concordance between the criteria, which constitute PIM-Check and the gold standard STOPP/START. Second, a retrospective comparative and observational study was performed on the list of treatment at the admission of 50 older patients hospitalized in an acute geriatric ward of a university hospital in Switzerland in 2016 using both tools.

RESULTS: The QAC has shown that 50% (57 criteria) of STOPP/START criteria are fully or partially concordant with those of PIM-Check. The retrospective study was performed on 50 patients aged 87 years, suffering from 5 co-morbidities (min-max 1-11) and treated by of 8 drugs (min-max 2-16), as medians. The prevalence of the detected PIP was 80% by PIM-Check and 90% by STOPP/START. Medication review shows that 4.2 PIP per patient were detected by PIM-Check and 3.5 PIP by STOPP/START among which 1.9 PIP was commonly detected by both tools, as means. PIM-Check detected more PIP related to cardiology, angiology, nephrology, and endocrinology in older patients but missed the PIP related to geriatric syndromes (e.g., fall, dementia, Alzheimer) detected by STOPP/START.

CONCLUSIONS: By using PIM-Check in geriatric settings, some PIP will not be detected. It is considered as a limitation for this tool in this frail population but brings a certain complementarity in other areas of therapy not covered by STOPP/START.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:77

Enthalten in:

European journal of clinical pharmacology - 77(2021), 11 vom: 01. Nov., Seite 1747-1756

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Farhat, Akram [VerfasserIn]
Panchaud, Alice [VerfasserIn]
Al-Hajje, Amal [VerfasserIn]
Lang, Pierre-Olivier [VerfasserIn]
Csajka, Chantal [VerfasserIn]

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Comparative Study
Journal Article
Medication review
Observational Study
PIM-Check
Potentially inappropriate medication list
Prescribing errors

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Date Completed 02.02.2022

Date Revised 18.02.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1007/s00228-021-03171-4

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM327379561