Prevalence of Potentially Inappropriate Prescribing Among Hong Kong Older Adults: A Comparison of the Beers 2003, Beers 2012, and Screening Tool of Older Person's Prescriptions and Screening Tool to Alert doctors to Right Treatment Criteria

J Am Geriatr Soc. 2015 Jul;63(7):1471-2. doi: 10.1111/jgs.13555.

Authors

May P S Lam^{1

2}, Bernard M Y Cheung¹, Ian C K Wong²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
² Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.

PMID: 26189852
DOI: 10.1111/jgs.13555

No abstract available

Publication types

Comparative Study
Letter
Observational Study

MeSH terms

Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Cross-Sectional Studies
Female
Hong Kong
Humans
Inappropriate Prescribing / statistics & numerical data*
Male
Polypharmacy
Prevalence
Retrospective Studies