Patient Safety at the Tipping Point: Focus on the Beers' Criteria and Other Clinical Strategies to Address Potentially Inappropriate Medication (PIM) Use in Older Patients
Compass Points
Premiere Date: Tuesday, November 20, 2012This activity offers CE credit for:
- Physicians (CME)
- Other
All other clinicians will receive a Certificate of Attendance stating this activity was certified for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
Credit Expiration Date:
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Note: Credit Is No Longer Available
 | Monique Johnson, MD, CCMEP Medical Program Director CME Outfitters, LLC Bethesda, MD |
Despite evidence of poor outcomes and significant health care expenditures from the use of potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs) in older adults, they continue to be prescribed at unacceptably high rates in patients aged 65 and over. Many adverse drug events (ADEs) in these patients, both in primary care and long-term care settings, are preventable. And avoiding use of PIMs is one strategy to address these ADEs.
We are now at a tipping point with this important patient safety concern, such that a call to action has been raised by patients, clinicians, researchers, and regulatory organizations: PIMs-related guidance has become a fundamental issue for policy and practice.
This Compass Points™ article provides an overview the magnitude of the problem with PIMs and reviews the 2012 American Geriatrics Society Beers' Criteria and the Screening Tool of Older Persons' Potentially Inappropriate Prescriptions (STOPP).
To educate clinicians on strategies to minimize prescribing potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs).
At the end of this CE activity, participants should be able to:
- Describe updates contained in the 2012 American Geriatrics Society Beers’ Criteria.
- Increase application of the 2012 American Geriatrics Society Beers’ Criteria in making treatment decisions for older patients.
This activity is supported by CME Outfitters, LLC
Physicians and other health care professionals who provide care to patients aged 65 and over.
CME Credit (Physicians):
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Dr. Johnson has no disclosures to report.
Howard Bliwise, MD, (peer/content reviewer) has no disclosures to report.
Joy Bartnett Leffler, MLA, NASW, CSE (planning committee) has no disclosures to report.
Sandra Haas Binford, MAEd (planning committee) has no disclosures to report.
Sharon Tordoff, CCMEP (planning committee) has no disclosures to report.
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