title: [Improving drug prescribing in the elderly: a new edition of STOPP/START criteria].
abstract: Inappropriate use of drugs in older patients may have an adverse impact on several individual health outcomes, such as increasing the prevalence of adverse drug reactions, morbidity and mortality, and geriatric syndromes, as well as on health care systems, such as increased costs and longer hospital stays. Explicit criteria of drug appropriateness are increasingly used to detect and prevent inappropriate use of drugs, either within a comprehensive geriatric assessment or as tool used by different multidisciplinary geriatric teams. STOPP-START criteria, first published in 2008 (in Spanish in 2009), are being adopted as reference criteria throughout Europe. The Spanish version of the new 2014 edition (recently published in English) of the STOPP-START criteria is presented here. A review of all the papers published in Spain using the former version of these criteria is also presented, with the intention of promoting their use and for research in different health care levels.
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Farmacia, Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, España.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Delgado Silveira
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Geriatría, Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, España.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Montero Errasquín
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Farmacia, Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, España.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Muñoz García
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Geriatría, Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, España.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Vélez-Díaz-Pallarés
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Geriatría, Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, España.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Lozano Montoya
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Geriatría, Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, España.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Sánchez-Castellano
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Geriatría, Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, España. Electronic address: alfonsojose.cruz@salud.madrid.org.
authors.forename: A J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Cruz-Jentoft
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D011307:Drug Prescriptions / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D000067561:Potentially Inappropriate Medication List
keywords: Drug-related problems; Explicit criteria; Métodos explícitos; Older people; Pacientes mayores; Polimedicación; Polypharmacy; Potentially inappropriate prescriptions; Prescripción inadecuada; Problemas relacionados con los medicamentos