Call 2 - An evaluation of inappropriate prescribing in long-stay elderly facilities in Greater Cork and Northern Ireland...
Professor Brendan McCormack, Professor of Nursing Research, University of Ulster; Professor Carmel Hughes, Professor of Primary Care Pharmacy and Dr Carole Parsons, Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice, Queens’ University Belfast; Dr Denis O’Mahony, Consultant Geriatrician and Senior Lecturer in Medicine, Cork University Hospital; Dr Susan Patterson, Pharmaceutical Prescribing Adviser, Health and Social Care Trust; Mr David O’Sullivan, Research Pharmacist, University College Cork and Sister Finola Finn, Matron, Bandon Community Hospital.
Title: An evaluation of inappropriate prescribing in long-stay elderly facilities in Greater Cork and Northern Ireland using the STOPP and Beers criteria
Inappropriate prescribing in older people is a major global health problem, with serious consequences for patients, principally adverse reactions and morbidity.
This team will collect data in Cork and compare with similar data from Northern Ireland.
Objectives: Compare the efficacy of the Beers criteria, developed in the USA, and the STOPP criteria developed at University College Cork; quantify the cost of inappropriate prescribing; and evaluate the opinions of long-term care residents on their pharmacotherapy treatments.
