This guide has been developed as a tool to assist healthcare providers in improving medication safety in older adults. Careful application of the criteria by health professionals, consumers, payors, and health systems should lead to closer monitoring of drug use in older adults. Fick, DM, et. Drug(s) Recommendation, Rationale, Quality of Evidence Potentially Harmful Drugs in the Elderly: Beers List and More (B=Beers list drug; C=Canadian list drug) Drug Concern Alternative Treatment Analgesics Ketorolac (Toradol) (B); long-term use (C) GI bleedingMeperidinea (Demerol) (B); long-term use (C) Not effective at commonly used oral doses; confusion, falls, factures, dependency, withdrawal5,15 American Geriatrics Society updated AGS Beers Criteria® for potentially inappropriate medication use in older adultsJournal of the American Geriatrics SocietyWiley Online Library The AGS Beers Criteria® is an explicit list of PIMs that are typi-cally best avoided by older adults in most circumstances or under specific situations, such as in certain diseases or con-ditions attempted to preserve the spirit and intent of the original Beers Criteria by providing an explicitlist of PIMs that are best avoided by older adults in most circumstances or under specific situations, such as certain diseases, conditions, or care settings The AGS Beers Criteria are applicable to all older adults with the exclusion of those in palliative and hospice care. J Am Geriatr Soc Key words: Beers List; medications Results of a US Consensus Panel of Experts. AGS BEERS CRITERIA®. The role of this guide AGS Beers Criteria® is an explicit list of PIMs that are typi-cally best avoided by older adults in most circumstances or under specific situations, such as in certain diseases or Adapted from: Updating the Beers Criteria for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use in Older Adults. (Table 1). Increased risk of cognitive impairment, delirium, falls, fractures, and motor vehicle accidents in TABLEAGS Beers Criteria for Potentially Inappropriate Medications to Be Used with Caution in Older Adults. al XREF_BEERS_ Alprazolam (increased sensitivity to benzodiazepines.
This guide has been developed as a tool to assist healthcare providers in improving medication safety in older adults. Careful application of the criteria by health professionals, consumers, payors, and health systems should lead to closer monitoring of drug use in older adults. Fick, DM, et. Drug(s) Recommendation, Rationale, Quality of Evidence Potentially Harmful Drugs in the Elderly: Beers List and More (B=Beers list drug; C=Canadian list drug) Drug Concern Alternative Treatment Analgesics Ketorolac (Toradol) (B); long-term use (C) GI bleedingMeperidinea (Demerol) (B); long-term use (C) Not effective at commonly used oral doses; confusion, falls, factures, dependency, withdrawal5,15 American Geriatrics Society updated AGS Beers Criteria® for potentially inappropriate medication use in older adultsJournal of the American Geriatrics SocietyWiley Online Library The AGS Beers Criteria® is an explicit list of PIMs that are typi-cally best avoided by older adults in most circumstances or under specific situations, such as in certain diseases or con-ditions attempted to preserve the spirit and intent of the original Beers Criteria by providing an explicitlist of PIMs that are best avoided by older adults in most circumstances or under specific situations, such as certain diseases, conditions, or care settings The AGS Beers Criteria are applicable to all older adults with the exclusion of those in palliative and hospice care. J Am Geriatr Soc Key words: Beers List; medications Results of a US Consensus Panel of Experts. AGS BEERS CRITERIA®. The role of this guide AGS Beers Criteria® is an explicit list of PIMs that are typi-cally best avoided by older adults in most circumstances or under specific situations, such as in certain diseases or Adapted from: Updating the Beers Criteria for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use in Older Adults. (Table 1). Increased risk of cognitive impairment, delirium, falls, fractures, and motor vehicle accidents in TABLEAGS Beers Criteria for Potentially Inappropriate Medications to Be Used with Caution in Older Adults. al XREF_BEERS_ Alprazolam (increased sensitivity to benzodiazepines.
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