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The Beers Criteria for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use in Older Adults, commonly called the Beers List, [1] are guidelines published by the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) for healthcare professionals to help improve the safety of prescribing medications for adults 65 years and older in all except palliative settings.
Mark Howard Beers (April 24, 1954 – February 28, 2009) [1] was an American geriatrician whose research on drug interactions among the elderly led to the creation of the eponymous Beers criteria, which lists prescription medications that may have deleterious side effects in older patients.
In the study of people ages 65 and older, 8.15% of women treated by female physicians died within 30 ... The study included nearly 800,000 male and female patients hospitalized from 2016 through ...
Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a transitional state between normal aging and Dementia, affecting 10-20% of adults over 65 (Schwarz, 2015). Geriatricians encounter MCI patients in various care settings, with diagnosis relying on clinical assessment and mental status examinations (Tangalos & Petersen, 2018).
Although the positive impact was greater in female patients — particularly those who were severely ... 700,000 Medicare patients aged 65 years or older who were hospitalized during 2016 to 2019 ...
Nearly one in five new cervical cancers diagnosed from 2009 to 2018 were in women 65 and older, according to a new UC Davis study.But what has experts concerned is that, according to the study ...
Beers (surname) Beers, Friesland, a Dutch place in the Friesland municipality of Littenseradiel; Beers, North Brabant, a Dutch place in the North Brabant municipality of Cuijk; De Beers, a Johannesburg-based diamond mining and trading corporation; Beers criteria, Beers Criteria for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use in Older Adults
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