Publications by authors named "Ana Mª de Andres Lazaro"
Background And Objective: To assess the accuracy of pharmaceutical anamnesis obtained at the Emergency Department (ED) of a tertiary referral hospital and to determine the prevalence of medication reconciliation errors (RE).
Material And Method: This was a single-center, prospective, interventional study. The home medication list obtained by a pharmacist was compared with the one recorded by a doctor to identify inaccuracies.
Introduction: In older people some drugs are classified as potentially inappropriate and some tools have been developed to help to prescribe correctly, such as the "Screening Tool of Older Persons' potentially inappropriate Prescriptions" (STOPP) and the "Screening Tool to Alert doctors to the Right Treatment" (START) criteria. The aim of this study is to determine the prevalence and advice on the usefulness of these criteria in a medium-stay unit of a geriatric hospital.
Material And Methods: A 6 month prospective cross-sectional study was designed.