title: Inappropriate prescribing in polypharmacy elderly outpatients taking multiple medications. Are the STOPP criteria useful?
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To assess potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs) in elderly outpatients taking multiple medications.
  
  
  METHODS
  Invoicing data of the prescriptions and electronic medical records were used to apply the STOPP (screening tool of older people's prescriptions) criteria.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Three out of 4 patients included in the study received PIMs. The most common criteria found were: duplicate drug class prescriptions (n = 58 (17.4%)), long-term long-acting benzodiazepines (n = 54 (16.2%)), and acetylsalicylic acid with no history of coronary, cerebral, or peripheral vascular symptoms or occlusive event (n = 32 (9.6%)).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Our results highlight the relevance of the systematic review of the pharmacological treatments in these patients.
authors.forename: María Luisa
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Nicieza-Garcia
authors.forename: María Esther
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Salgueiro-Vázquez
authors.forename: Francisco José
authors.initials: FJ
authors.lastname: Jimeno-Demuth
authors.forename: Gloria
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Manso
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D057970:Inappropriate Prescribing; D008297:Male; D010045:Outpatients; D019338:Polypharmacy