Related Resources
Downloads
- The Beers Criteria Review 2019 – PDF
- Evidence for the Beers Criteria – PDF
- STOPP-START criteria – PDF
- STOPPFrail criteria – PDF
Links
- AGS Beers Criteria Pocket Card – American Geriatrics Society PDF
- If your department is interested in improving Medication Reconciliation you may be interested in the Best Possible Medication History from the Canadian Patient Safety Institute
- Two patient education sheets about Safe Medications from HealthInAging.org
- Ten Medications Older Adults Should Avoid or Use with Caution – HealthInAging.org PDF
- Avoiding Overmedication and Harmful Drug Reaction – HealthInAging.org PDF
- Monthly educational webcasts on safe prescribing for older adults – GeriMedRisk
- Resource for checking medication interactions – Medscape Drug Reference Database
Recommended Readings
- Pharmacologic Issues in Geriatric Emergency Medicine – Blanda, Michelle P. Elsevier Saunders – View the Article
- STOPPFrail (Screening Tool of Older Persons Prescriptions in Frail adults with limited life expectancy): consensus validation. Lavan AH et al. – Age Aging 2017 Jul;46(4):600-607. – View the NCBI Journal Article
- Prescribing to Older ED Patients. Terrell KM et al. – Am J Emerg Med 2006 Jul;24(4):468-478. – View the NCBI Journal Article
- Inappropriate prescribing in elderly ED patients. Heard K, Wilber S, Shah MN. Am J Emerg Med 2008 Mar;26(3):372-373. – View the NCBI Journal Article
- Inappropriate prescribing in an older ED population. Hustey FM, Wallis N, Miller J. Am J Emerg Med 2007 Sep;25(7):804-807. – View the NCBI Journal Article
- Potentially inappropriate medication utilization in the emergency department visits by older adults: analysis from a nationally representative sample. Meurer WJ, Potti TA, Kerber KA, Sasson C, Macy ML, West BT, Losman ED. Acad Emerg Med. 2010 Mar;17(3):231-7. – View the NCBI Journal Article
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very good and helpful resources
Some of the links are no longer working, but many are a great resource
good knowledge. thank you
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Thank you for these.
good resources
these are great resources
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medscape is a good app to use on your phone
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ED pharmacist
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good resources
ED pharmacist!
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I have no other resources
RX files and lexicomp
I still have no additional sources but it won’t let me get past this page.
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I do not have additional sources
great resources
useful resources
Consult ED pharmacist
useful
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I did it the docs way
Our pharmacist is a lifesaver!
Wow! A lot of information that is useful.
great
Excellent resources. have no further ones to add.
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Great resources
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I usually use our internal resources.
No new resources from me.
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uptodate
uptodate, medscape
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Nothing to add
informative
Excellent material and resources provided here.
beers criteria link not working
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Excellent material
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This is very educational
Start slow and go slow
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Great tip sheet
Having a pharmacist just for the ED would be great to make sure our prescriptions and the medications pt are getting are on point especially with explaining the medication interaction solely where at times the providers do not have a lot of time explaining.
thanks for the good downloads
thanks for the resources
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great resources
great learning tool
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good!
try to stick to the Beers criteria when avoiding meds in the ED
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great resources.
helpful
BEER PDF link doesn’t work
link to PDF Beers criteria review 2019 does not work. Many valuable resources above, thank you for sharing.
BEER PDF 2019 could not be found
excellent resources
good
AUA toolkit
I liked the Beers pocket PDF
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I do not.
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Useful links
helpful resources
i appreciate the incorporation of these additional resources
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great resources
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Very helpful. other than involving pharmacy in medication reconciliation, no additional resources
thank you for these resources for free
great resources
excellent training/awareness
nil others to add
useful
Medscape app
currently nothing
check doses for geriatric
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great resources thanks
Pharmacy
will do
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I like to check drug interactions on lexicomp and check doses for geriatric
Beers criteria is uselful
Beers criteria
deprescribing.org
No particular resource that I use right now. I like to check drug interactions on lexicomp and check doses for geriatric and renal patients.
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uptodate
Great resources. At this time I do not have any additional ones to contribute.
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excellent resources
Great resources
We have an ED pharmacist who reviews medication records and are working to have them provide timely feedback to providers in the ED to manage acute medication decisions
Intranet in Geris section
Good resources
Geriatric Emergency Medicine by Stephen Meldon et al a good reference
Up to date, CPS
uptodate for quick check on drug interactions and dosing
The patient education sheets are excellent. Do they exist in French, and other languages?
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The pharmacist is one of my ‘most valuable resources’! The resources offered here are all very useful.
great resources
the link for improving Medication Reconciliation you may be interested in the Best Possible Medication History Initiative from saferhealthcarenow.ca needs to be updated. Thanks!
Easy to find with a google search though.
Beers and extremely helpful
Beers list helpful.
beers list helpful
Pharm apps are particularily helpful
thanks
The pharmacist in the ED or the one in community
I also refer to CCAC for a pharmacy visit or Rapid Response Nurse visit
Phone apps. very helpful
cps
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surprising how often we get it wrong.
Nothing specific with regard to this topic.
so much extra information to help with assessment
Beers criteria its a strong recommendation
Currently no information available
los criterios de brees son excelentes
Love Beers criteria app.
online helpful
online resources, and local pharmacists.
resourceful!
informative information
Very useful info!
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great tools
Very useful information/tools
Excellent resources
Thats a lot
Being able to access it on line will help