• Ma Guadalupe Martínez-Ruiz, Felisardo Corona-Ruiz, Adriana P Solís-Rivera, Sonia Sifuentes-Franco, Virginia A Sánchez-López, Santiago J Guevara-Martínez, and Selene G Huerta-Olvera.
• Institute of Clinical and Experimental Therapeutics, Centro Universitario de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad de Guadalajara, Guadalajara.
• Gac Med Mex. 2023 Jan 1; 159 (2): 147153147-153.

BackgroundPotentially inappropriate prescription (PIP) constitutes a risk for the development of adverse effects of a drug that outweigh its benefits, which can be considered inappropriate medication use.ObjectiveTo describe the prevalence of PIP in geriatric patients hospitalized at the internal medicine department of a referral hospital in Mexico.Material And MethodsCross-sectional, descriptive design, with simple allocation of medical records from patients older than 65 years hospitalized between January 2016 and August 2017. The STOPP/START criteria were applied to identify the number of PIPs, the number of prescribed medications, number and type of comorbidities, as well as days of hospital stay.ResultsA prevalence of PIP of 73.3% was identified, with main comorbidities being hypertension and type 2 diabetes mellitus. A total of 1,885 prescribed medications were quantified; mean hospital stay was 6.3 days.ConclusionsA high prevalence of PIP was identified in hospitalized geriatric patients, hence the importance of applying the STOPP/START criteria and of the role of the pharmacist for validating the prescription prior to drug administration.Copyright: © 2023 Permanyer.

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