Márcio Galvão Oliveira|Welma Wildes Amorim|Sandra Rêgo de Jesus|Victor Alves Rodrigues|Luiz Carlos Santana Passos
Factors associated with potentially inappropriate medication use by the elderly in the Brazilian primary care setting
Universidade Federal da Bahia|Southwest Bahia State University|Universidade Federal da Bahia|Southwest Bahia State University|Universidade Federal da Bahia
exposure elderly patients potentially inappropriate medication pim associated increased use health care servicesto evaluate prevalence factors associated use pim elderly patients treated primary healthcare facilitiesfamily health programme centres northeastern brazila prospective survey medications used elderly patients performed total 142 participants randomly selected via systematic sampling beers criteria applied assess use pim among investigated sample medications included criteria assessed availability brazil prevalence inappropriate medications chosen occurrence measure compared among exposure groups using prevalence ratio pr measure associationprevalence various factors associated use pim results prevalence pim usage 345 factors exhibited associations included following illiteracy pr 151 95 ci 102224 black skin colour pr 180 95 ci 140232 use 4 drugs per day pr 236 95 ci 179311 use medications prescribed doctor pr 252 95 ci 112569 use medications supplied brazilian government pr 142 95 ci 110181 frequently prescribed pim included shortacting nifedipine 345 methyldopa 91 data collected study indicated high prevalence use pim factors contributed prevalence included medical prescriptions polypharmacy medications supplied brazilian national health system black skin colour specifically african descent