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Potentially Inappropriate Medication List

A list, criteria, or screening tool designed to improve PATIENT SAFETY by determining an individual's exposure to potentially inappropriate drugs. They are designed to prevent MEDICATION ERRORS by INAPPROPRIATE PRESCRIBING. Analysis for a list includes factors such as DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG-RELATED SIDE EFFECTS AND ADVERSE REACTIONS; AGE FACTORS; GENDER; and existing medical conditions.

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A list, criteria, or screening tool designed to improve PATIENT SAFETY by determining an individual's exposure to potentially inappropriate drugs. They are designed to prevent MEDICATION ERRORS by INAPPROPRIATE PRESCRIBING. Analysis for a list includes factors such as DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG-RELATED SIDE EFFECTS AND ADVERSE REACTIONS; AGE FACTORS; GENDER; and existing medical conditions.

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28 entry terms
  • PIM List
  • Potentially Inappropriate Medications
  • Inappropriate Medication, Potentially
  • Inappropriate Medications, Potentially
  • Medication, Potentially Inappropriate
  • Medications, Potentially Inappropriate
  • PIM Lists
  • Potentially Inappropriate Medication
  • Beers Criteria
  • Beers Potentially Inappropriate Medications
  • Medication Appropriateness Index
  • STOPP
  • STOPP (Screening Tool of Older Person's Potentially Inappropriate Prescriptions)
  • STOPP START Criteria
  • Screening Tool of Older Person's Potentially Inappropriate Prescriptions
  • de Beers Criteria
  • Appropriateness Index, Medication
  • Appropriateness Indices, Medication
  • Beers Criteria, de
  • Criteria, STOPP START
  • Criterias, STOPP START
  • Index, Medication Appropriateness
  • Indices, Medication Appropriateness
  • Medication Appropriateness Indices
  • START Criteria, STOPP
  • START Criterias, STOPP
  • STOPP START Criterias
  • STOPPs (Screening Tool of Older Person's Potentially Inappropriate Prescriptions)

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Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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History Note

2016

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Previous Indexing

  • Inappropriate Prescribing (2010-2015)
  • Medication Errors (2003-2015)

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  1. N04w.761w.700.615
  2. N05.700.594

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Potentially Inappropriate Medication List. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D000067561. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D000067561
  2. Potentially Inappropriate Medication List. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q65591238