Click this link for the chart of potentially inappropriate medications, their therapeutic alternatives, and medications to consider initiating in the elderly that incorporates the STOPP and START criteria. Use these lists to identify red flags that might require intervention, not as the final word on medication appropriateness; look at the total patient picture.
(PL Detail-Document, STARTing and STOPPing Medications in the Elderly, Pharmacist's Letter/Prescriber's Letter. September 2011.)
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