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Potentially Inappropriate Medications for Elderly

July 2008

The list of drugs in the attachment below is a summary of information from the following report in Archives of Internal Medicine:

Fick DM, Cooper JW, Wade WE, Waller JL, Maclean JR, Beers MH. Updating the Beers criteria for potentially inappropriate medication use in older adults: results of a US consensus panel of experts. Arch Intern Med. 2003;163:2716-2724. [ Link ]

Click on the name of each medication or medication class for detailed information from MEDLINEplus, a service of the US National Library of Medicine.

File Download: Beers_inappropriate_meds_elderly.pdf (63.4 KB)



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