Prevalence of potentially inappropriate medication use in older population: comparison of the Finnish Meds75+ database with eight published criteria

Table 3 Proportion of users of the most common PIMs among people using PIMs (total = 497,663)

ATC code and medicine subgroup	All criteria considered^a (%)	Number of criteria defining PIM class^b	Meds75+ database (%)	Beers criteria (%)	EU (7)-PIM list (%)	Swedish criteria^c (%)	Laroche criteria (%)	NORGEP-NH (%)	PRISCUS list (%)	Red-Yellow-Green list (%)	STOPP (/START) (%)
A02B Drugs for peptic ulcer and gastro-oesophageal reflux disease	46.8	2/9	0.8	46.4
N02A Opioids	38.1	5/9	20.5		6.6	20.5		16.0			28.4
C03C High-ceiling diuretics/Loop diuretics	33.5	1/9									33.5
M01A Anti-inflammatory products, non-steroids	30.1	7/9	0.4	22.8	16.0		0.4	30.1	12.1	30.1
N05C Hypnotics and sedatives	23.4	9/9	3.8	9.7	7.0	0.3	0.3	23.4	6.9	0.3	23.4
N05B Anxiolytics	17.6	9/9	6.2	17.5	6.3	5.4	5.5	5.4	6.3	3.0	17.6
N05A Antipsychotics	14.4	8/9	1.9	14.4	1.4	0.8	0.6		0.7	9.0	14.4

bold number the medicine class with highest proportion of users per each criterion
NH nursing home, NORGEP Norwegian General Practice, PIM potentially inappropriate medication, STOPP/START Screening Tool of Older Persons’ Potentially Inappropriate Prescriptions and Screening Tool to Alert to Right Treatment
^apotentially inappropriate medications according to the summary of nine criteria
^beven if the same medicine class is included in several PIM criteria, the drug substances considered as PIMs may differ between the criteria, leading to variation in the reported percentages (see Additional file 2)
^cIndicators for Quality of Drug Therapy in the elderly

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