U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality

Elderly receiving inappropriate prescriptions from their doctors

Published in Law and Health Weekly, March 26th, 2005

A large review of data linked to more than 175,000 older adults enrolled in HMOs indicates that potentially inappropriate medications are being prescribed in substantial numbers.

In 2000-01, according to researchers, more than 28% of elderly individuals received at least one of 33 medications deemed potentially inappropriate by medical experts, while 5% received 1 of 11 drugs that had been classified as inappropriate in all older patients. The findings were published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

Data showed that overall rates of use of any of the 33 potentially inappropriate medications were greater in women than in men....

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Source: Law and Health Weekly (2005-03-26)

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