Inappropriate Medication in the Elderly Risk Factors - Equation

Evaluation

Are you evaluating an elderly patient who receives home health care?

Yes

Age of the patient

Does the patient live alone?

Yes

Number of different medications being taken by the patient

Is the patient taking an anxiolytic drug?

Yes

Is the patient depressed?

Yes

Socioeconomic status

Results

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Results Interpretation and Description References Next Steps

Data complete?

Evaluation appropriate?

Number of risk factors for inappropriate medication use

The risk of inappropriate medication use by the patient is

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Interpretation and Description

References

Next Steps in Evaluation

Diagnosis

Risk Factors

Therapy

Selection
- Risk Factors for Medication Errors in Intensive Care Unit (ICU)
Administration
- Prescription Abbreviations Associated with Dosage Errors
Failure Handling And Therapy Escalation
Prevention

Monitoring

Overdose And Reversal
- Classification for Providers Who Write Prescriptions for Controlled Substances
Failure Handling (loss To Followup, Etc)
- Classification for Providers Who Write Prescriptions for Controlled Substances

Societal Concerns

Economic Cost
- Reasons for Prescription Medications Being Wasted in Geriatric Outpatients
Public Health
- Methods That Drug-Impaired Healthcare Worker May Use to Divert Drugs

Specialty

Pharmacology, clinical

Objective

drug interactions
failure handling and therapy escalation
overdose and reversal

ICD-10

A00-B99 - Certain infectious and parasitic diseases
D50-D89 - Diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs and certain disorders involving the immune mechanism
E00-E89 - Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases
F01-F99 -
I00-I99 - Diseases of the circulatory system
J00-J99 - Diseases of the respiratory system
K00-K95 - Diseases of the digestive system
M00-M99 - Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue
N00-N99 - Diseases of the genitourinary system

Risk Factors of Fialova et al for Inappropriate Medication Use in Elderly European Home Care Patients

Purpose: To evaluate an elderly home health care patient for risk of inappropriate medication use based on the study of Fialova et al.