title: [Potentially inappropriate medication for the elderly: adaptation and evaluation of a French consensus list].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Appropriate pharmacotherapy is one of the most important topics due to demographic development in many industrialised countries. The purpose of our work was to evaluate and adjust a French consensus list for Germany.
  
  
  METHODS
  We conducted a thorough literature review with regard to the safety of drugs for the elderly.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Originally, 34 criteria containing drugs or drug classes were classified as inappropriate. From these, we evaluated 12 criteria as appropriate, and all others as potentially inappropriate, too. Frequently, drugs affecting the central nervous system, for example anticholinergics and benzodiazepines, were evaluated as potentially inappropriate medication.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Our adapted list may be used as recommendation for appropriate drug prescribing in the elderly in Germany.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Klinische Pharmakologie und Toxikologie, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin. marita.koelzsch@charite.de
authors.forename: Marita
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kölzsch
authors.forename: Juliane
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bolbrinker
authors.forename: Matthias
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Huber
authors.forename: Reinhold
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kreutz
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D032921:Consensus; D005602:France / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D057970:Inappropriate Prescribing / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*