Introduction: Proportion of seniors in the world population is growing and substantial attention is given to population aging worldwide. Geriatric patients present very heterogenous group of patients with high interindividual differences. With increasing age number of chronic and degenerative disorders increases, drug consumption raises and consequently also polypharmacy. The more medications a senior consume, the higher probability of prescription of high-risk medications he/she has. With the aim to rationalize drug prescribing in geriatric patients, significant number of explicit criteria of medications/medication procedures potentially inappropriate in older age has been published. The aim of this diploma thesis was to evaluate prevalence of potentially inappropriate prescribing in geriatric population in studies published between 1991 and 2015 years and to further evaluate the most frequently prescribed potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs) in these studies. Methods: Detailed literature search has been conducted with the use of PubMed and Web of Science databases. Studies dealing with potentially inappropriate prescribing that have been published from 1st January 1991 to 31st December 2015 were included. Data from scientific articles were summarized in the first part of the diploma...
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:367742 |
| Date | January 2017 |
| Creators | Paulíková, Kateřina |
| Contributors | Fialová, Daniela, Doseděl, Martin |
| Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
| Language | Czech |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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