Development and validation of an improving prescribing in the elderly tool.

摘要: Objective To apply recently published consensus panel guidelines to a series of hospital inpatient charts develop and validate brief screening tool for potentially inappropriate prescriptions in the elderly. Setting A 400-bed acute care London, Ontario. Methods Three hundred sixty-one consecutive charts, 185 from clinical teaching unit (CTU) 176 geriatric assessment (GAU) were examined as listed by McLeod et al. The prescribing practices detected used Improving Prescribing Elderly Tool (IPET). Construct validity was looking predicted difference rate between CTU GAU. Interrater reliability determined applying IPET new 100 charts. Results Forty-two 361 individuals (12.5%) had 45 representing 14 different potential drug/disease interactions; these construct IPET. demonstrated GAU indicated validity. interrater (kappa) when applied 1.0. Interpretation is brief, reliable valid based on literature that may be screen