Ger 7 Beers Criteria Flashcards
What are the 4 intentions of the Beers Criteria?
- Improve the selection of prescription drugs by clinicians and patients
- Evaluate patterns of drug use within populations
- Educating clinicians and patients on proper drug usage
- Evaluating health-outcome, quality of care, cost, and utilization data
What will help achieve the goal of evaluating and managing drug use in older adults while considering the dynamic complexities of the healthcare system?
Regular updates to the Beers Critera
What supersedes the Beers Criteria list?
- Clinical judgement
2. Individual patients values and needs
What are 2 elements of prescribing and managing disease conditions?
- Individualization
2. Shared decision making
What are 2 examples where a heath care provider determines that a drug on the list is the only reasonable alternative?
- End of life
2. Palliative care
What else can the Beers Criteria be used for besides prescribing medications?
Monitoring their effects in older adults
If you choose a drug on the list for an elderly patient, what do you need to do?
Close monitoring for Adverse Drug Effects
*This can be incorporated into the electronic heath record and prevented or detected early
What is something else that the Beer Criteria emphasizes the importance of?
Nonpharmacological methods of treatment
What are 3 things thoughtful application of the Beers Criteria will allow for?
- Closer monitoring of drug use
- Application of real-time e-prescribing and interventions to decrease ADEs in older adults
- Better patient outcome
What is a PIM?
Potentially inappropriate medications
What is a systematic review and grading of the evidence on drug-related problems and ADEs in older adults?
Beers Criteria
What was used to update the 2012 AGS Beers Critera?
A modified delphi method (EVIDENCE-BASED APPROACH)
Who developed the Beers Criteria?
American Geriatrics Society (AGS) and an interdisciplinary panel of 11 experts in geriatric care/pharmacotherapy
What are the 3 catergories that medications or medication classes encompassing the update Beers Criteria were placed into?
- PIM and classes to avoid in older adults
- PIM and classes to avoid in older adults with certain diseases and syndromes
- Medications to be used with caution in older adults
How many medications or medication classes encompassed the update Beers Criteria?
53
What % of ADEs in primary care were preventable according to estimates from past studies in ambulatory and long-term care settings?
27%
What % of ADEs in long-term care were preventable according to estimates from past studies in ambulatory and long-term care settings?
42%
Where do most problems occur with regards to care?
At the ordering/monitorying stages
In the 2000/2001 medical expenditure panel survey, what was the total estimated healthcare expenditures related to the use of PIMs?
7.2 billion
What can explicit criteria do?
Identify high-risk drugs using a list of PIMs (by looking at Beers Criteria list
When was the first Beers criteria (list of PIMs) for nursing home residents published?
1991
What does the revised Beers List of PIMs created in 1997 and 2003 include?
All settings of geriatric care
What factors does implicit criteria include (2)?
- Therapeutic duplication
2. Drug-drug interactions
What has a strong link with poor patient outcomes like ADEs, hospitalization, and mortality in observational studies?
PIMs
True or False: PIMs have limited effectiveness in older adults
TRUE
What are PIMs associated with in older adults?
- Delirium
- GI Bleeding
- Falls
- Fracture