title: Drug-age alerting for outpatient geriatric prescriptions: a joint study using interoperable drug standards.
abstract: For more than a decade, the Beers criteria have identified specific medications that should generally be avoided in the geriatric population. Studies that have shown high prevalence rates of these potentially inappropriate medications have used disparate methodologies to identify these medications and hence are difficult to replicate and generalize. In an effort to improve prescribing behavior, we are building a drug-age alerting system utilizing standard drug coding systems for use in our Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems.
authors.affiliation: Cleveland Clinic Foundation, OH, USA.
authors.forename: Ashish
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Atreja
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Buck
authors.forename: Anil
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Jain
authors.forename: Cherie
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Brunker
authors.forename: Theodor T
authors.initials: TT
authors.lastname: Suh
authors.forename: C Martin
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Harris
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Palmer
authors.forename: Adam
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Wilcox
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D011307:Drug Prescriptions; D004360:Drug Therapy, Computer-Assisted; D005853:Geriatrics; D006801:Humans; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D008508:Medication Errors / Q000517:prevention & control*; D017010:Reminder Systems