Friday May 25, 2012
For
more than 20 years, the Beers Criteria for
Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use in Older
Adults has been the leading source of
information about the safety of prescribing drugs for older people.
To help prevent medication side effects and other drug-related
problems in older adults, the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) has
updated and expanded this important resource. The
expanded AGS Updated Beers Criteria for
Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use in Older
Adults identifies medications
with risks that may be greater than their benefits for people 65
and older.
This summary is from the
full report titled,
AGS Updated Beers Criteria for Potentially Inappropriate Medication
Use in Older Adults. It is in the March
2012 issue of the
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
(JAGS). The report is authored
by the American Geriatrics
Society
Click Link
Below for Summary:
Beers Criteria -
Updated 2012