title: The updated beers criteria: promoting use of evidence-based medications in the elderly.
abstract: For more than two decades, the Beers criteria, which lists potentially inappropriate medications for use in older adults, has been a cornerstone to providing optimal pharmaceutical care to elderly patients. Updates to the Beers criteria were added in 2012. All practitioners caring for elderly patients should have a thorough understanding of the criteria, which are increasingly referenced and used by clinicians and policymakers alike.
authors.forename: Caren McHenry
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Martin
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D057970:Inappropriate Prescribing