Potentially Inappropriate Medication Usage in Older Adults in a Tertiary Academic Medical Center Emergency Department.

Background: The Beers Criteria® medications are potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs) recommended by the American Geriatric Society to be avoided or used with caution in adults 65 years and older. The usage of PIMs in the emergency department (ED) setting is not well characterized.

Objectives: The purpose of this study is to evaluate the usage of PIMS in the ED.

Involuntary attentional shifts as a function of set and processing fluency.

In laboratory tasks, involuntary cognitions of various kinds (e.g., mental imagery) have been elicited by external stimuli.