Optimizing medication use in elderly people in primary care: Impact of STOPP criteria on inappropriate prescriptions.

Background: STOPP (Screening Tool of Older Person's Prescriptions) criteria have been used in acute care and nursing home settings as a screening tool to assess Potentially Inappropriate Medication (PIM) for elderly people. Furthermore, this tool could help General Practitioners (GPs) to lower PIM frequency in primary care.

Objective: The aim of the study was to measure the impact of STOPP criteria applied by the GP on prescriptions during a primary care consultation.

[Prescription of acetaminophen in five French hospitals: What are the practices?].

Aim: Acetaminophen is widely used in hospital settings and often considered as nontoxic. We conducted a multicentric study in order to evaluate its proper use.

Method: Prescriptions from five general hospitals were analyzed, according to dose adjustments required in renal or liver failure, weight or chronic alcoholism, determined using a literature review.

[Antidepressants and tamoxifen: an unrecognized interaction].

The interaction between tamoxifen and antidepressants which are CYP2D6 inhibitors is unknown, as shown in our study in which these antidepressants are prescribed to 11% of women receiving tamoxifen.