Beers Criteria 4477411 140522533 2007-06-25T14:06:11Z Clicketyclack 734918 cat sort The '''Beers Criteria''' (or '''Beers List''') provide a list of [[medication]]s that are generally considered inappropriate when given to [[elderly]] people because these medications may pose more risk than benefit. For a wide variety of individual reasons, the medications listed tend to cause [[Adverse drug reaction|side effects]] in the elderly due to the physiologic changes of [[aging]]. The criteria were created through consensus of a panel of experts by using the [[Delphi method]]; they were originally published in the [[Archives of Internal Medicine]] in [[1991]] and were most recently updated in [[2003]]. ==References== *[http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/163/22/2716 Updating the Beers Criteria for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use in Older Adults] Fick DM, Cooper JW, Wade WE, Waller JL, Maclean, JR, Beers, MH. Arch Intern Med. 2003;163:2716-2724. *[http://www.dcri.duke.edu/ccge/curtis/beers.html Potentially Inappropriate Medications for the Elderly According to the Revised Beers Criteria] [[Category:Geriatrics]] [[Category:Pharmacy]]