Authors: Eva Blozik Roland Rapold Jan von Overbeck Oliver Reich
Publish Date: 2013/04/04
Volume: 30, Issue: 7, Pages: 561-568
Abstract
The analysis is done based on claims data from the largest health insurance in Switzerland We calculated the number of medications submitted for reimbursement the proportion of persons with polypharmacy and the proportion of persons receiving PIM according to the 2003 Beers criteria and the PRISCUS list Additionally we estimated cost for medications and PIM and identified the most prevalent groups of PIM according to the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System ATC17 of the adult communitydwelling population in Switzerland received 5 or more medications which is one of the common definitions of polypharmacy and over 21 of adults aged more than 65 years had a PIM according to 2003 Beers criteria or the PRISCUS list The most prevalent classes of PIM were psycholeptics sex hormones psychoanaleptics and antiinflammatory drugs
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