Edward Barroga, Glafera Janet Matanguihan, Atsuko Furuta, Makiko Arima, Shizuma Tsuchiya, Chikako Kawahara, Yusuke Takamiya, Miki Izumi
Conducting and Writing Quantitative and Qualitative Research
Journal of Korean medical science
inappropriate medication prescribing dispensing physicians pharmacists preventable cause morbidity mortality elderly signifying importance healthcare professionals knowledge potentially inappropriate prescribing tools guidelines would improve overall health outcomes beers criteria one used guidelines list specific potentially inappropriate medications pims study aimed investigate physicians hospital pharmacists awareness knowledge practice confidence barriers use beers criteria crosssectional survey carried among 66 hospital pharmacists 31 family medicine physicians working teaching hospital nigeria may september 2021 using selfadministered questionnaire knowledge pims assessed using 11 clinical vignettes based 2019 beers criteria practice behavior towards elderly patients assessed using 5item statement 5point likert scale perceived barriers appropriate use beers criteria assessed using 15item statement descriptive inferential statistics used analyze data total 66 hospital pharmacists 31 family medicine physicians participated study 24 364 pharmacists 4 129 physicians knew guidelines listed specific pims 21 318 pharmacists 11 354 physicians demonstrated good knowledge beers criteria pharmacists 55 833 physicians 29 935 reported good practice dealing elderly patients terms asking relevant questions considering ages dispensing medications knowledge scores significantly associated hospital pharmacists sociodemographics physicians pharmacists confident care provided geriatric patients majority 66 1000 pharmacists 28 935 physicians suggested training seminar presentations measure improve use beers criteria lack time counsel patients major barrier recounted physicians pharmacists healthcare professionals participated study satisfactory practice although gap knowledge hospital pharmacists family medicine physicians noted addition creating awareness among healthcare professionals training pims beers criteria multidisciplinary approach reduce potentially inappropriate prescribing dispensing would greatly help reduce incidence potentially inappropriate medication use among elderly patients