Medication-Related Falls in the Elderly

American Geriatrics Society Updated Beers Criteria for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use in Older Adults

(2012)   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN GERIATRICS SOCIETY

Medication Safety: Are We There Yet?

(2011) Jeffrey L. Schnipper   ARCHIVES OF INTERNAL MEDICINE

Potentially Inappropriate Medications Defined by STOPP Criteria and the Risk of Adverse Drug Events in Older Hospitalized Patients

(2011) Hilary Hamilton et al.   ARCHIVES OF INTERNAL MEDICINE

Prevention of Potentially Inappropriate Prescribing for Elderly Patients: A Randomized Controlled Trial Using STOPP/START Criteria

(2011) P F Gallagher et al.   CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY & THERAPEUTICS

STOPP (Screening Tool of Older Person’s Prescriptions) and START (Screening Tool to Alert doctors to Right Treatment). Consensus validation

(2011) P. Gallagher et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY AND THERAPEUTICS

Trends in Use of High-Risk Medications for Older Veterans: 2004 to 2006

(2011) Mary Jo V. Pugh et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN GERIATRICS SOCIETY

Older Adults' Medication Use 6 Months Before and After Hip Fracture: A Population-Based Cohort Study

(2011) Annika Kragh et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN GERIATRICS SOCIETY

Associations Between Drug Burden Index and Falls in Older People in Residential Aged Care

(2011) Nicholas M. Wilson et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN GERIATRICS SOCIETY

Dementia Medications and Risk of Falls, Syncope, and Related Adverse Events: Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials

(2011) Dae Hyun Kim et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN GERIATRICS SOCIETY

Registered Nurses' Job Demands in Relation to Sitter Use

(2011) Christian M. Rochefort et al.   NURSING RESEARCH

One-time counselling decreases the use of benzodiazepines and related drugs among community-dwelling older persons

(2010) M. Salonoja et al.   AGE AND AGEING

A pharmacoepidemiologic study of community-dwelling, disabled older women: Factors associated with medication use

(2010) Victor Crentsil et al.   American Journal Geriatric Pharmacotherapy

Improving the use of benzodiazepines-Is it possible? A non-systematic review of interventions tried in the last 20 years

(2010) Alesha J Smith et al.   BMC HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH

Absolute risk representation in cardiovascular disease prevention: comprehension and preferences of health care consumers and general practitioners involved in a focus group study

(2010) Sophie Hill et al.   BMC PUBLIC HEALTH

Hypnosedative Use and Predictors of Successful Withdrawal in New Patients Attending a Falls Clinic

(2010) Jenna Joester et al.   DRUGS & AGING

Risk of Falls and Fractures in Older Adults Using Antipsychotic Agents

(2010) Sandhya Mehta et al.   DRUGS & AGING

Management of behavioral problems in Alzheimer's disease

(2010) Serge Gauthier et al.   INTERNATIONAL PSYCHOGERIATRICS

Psychotropic drugs and falling accidents among the elderly: a nested case control study in the whole population of Scania, Sweden

(2010) B. Moden et al.   JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND COMMUNITY HEALTH

Decreasing the Costs of Constant Observation

(2010) Danielle LaPage Rausch et al.   JOURNAL OF NURSING ADMINISTRATION

Risk of Injury Associated with Opioid Use in Older Adults

(2010) David Buckeridge et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN GERIATRICS SOCIETY

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

(2009) Paul Gallagher et al.   AGE AND AGEING

The risk of falls and fractures associated with persistent use of psychotropic medications in elderly people

(2009) Agnes I. Vitry et al.   ARCHIVES OF GERONTOLOGY AND GERIATRICS

Meta-analysis of the Impact of 9 Medication Classes on Falls in Elderly Persons

(2009) John C. Woolcott   ARCHIVES OF INTERNAL MEDICINE

Cost Effectiveness of Withdrawal of Fall-Risk-Increasing Drugs in Geriatric Outpatients

(2009) Nathalie van der Velde et al.   DRUGS & AGING

Promoting More Conservative Prescribing

(2009) Gordon D. Schiff   JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

Number and Dosage of Central Nervous System Medications on Recurrent Falls in Community Elders: The Health, Aging and Body Composition Study

(2009) J. T. Hanlon et al.   JOURNALS OF GERONTOLOGY SERIES A-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND MEDICAL SCIENCES

STOPP (Screening Tool of Older Persons' potentially inappropriate Prescriptions): application to acutely ill elderly patients and comparison with Beers' criteria

(2008) P. Gallagher et al.   AGE AND AGEING

Profile-specific survival estimates: Making reports of clinical trials more patient-relevant

(2008) Marilyse Julien et al.   Clinical Trials

Withdrawing Benzodiazepines in Primary Care

(2008) Malcolm Lader et al.   CNS DRUGS

Effective assessment of use of sitters by nurses in inpatient care settings

(2008) Huey-Ming Tzeng et al.   JOURNAL OF ADVANCED NURSING

A Randomized Trial of the Effectiveness of On-demand versus Computer-triggered Drug Decision Support in Primary Care

(2008) R. Tamblyn et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL INFORMATICS ASSOCIATION

Effect of Dissemination of Evidence in Reducing Injuries from Falls

(2008) Mary E. Tinetti et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Trends in use of opioids for non-cancer pain conditions 2000–2005 in Commercial and Medicaid insurance plans: The TROUP study

(2008) Mark D. Sullivan et al.   PAIN

Interventions for Preventing Falls in Acute- and Chronic-Care Hospitals: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

(2007) Joke Coussement et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN GERIATRICS SOCIETY