Table 3.
Potentially inappropriate medications in older adults attending psychiatric setting using Beers criteria, (N = 1300).
| Medication prescribed | Frequency (%) |
|
|---|---|---|
| Yes | No | |
| Tricyclic antidepressants | ||
| Clomipramine | 13 (1.0) | 1296 (99.0) |
| Imipramine | 33 (2.5) | 1276 (97.5) |
| Amitriptyline | 489 (37.4) | 820 (62.6) |
| Tetracyclic antidepressants | ||
| Maprotiline | 40 (3.1) | 1269 (96.9) |
| Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors | ||
| Paroxetine | 16 (1.2) | 1293 (98.8) |
| First generation antipsychotics | ||
| Chlorpromazine | 196 (15.0) | 1113 (85.0) |
| Trifluperazine | 187 (14.3) | 1122 (85.7) |
| Haloperidol | 83 (6.3) | 1226 (93.7) |
| Fluphenazine | 5 (0.4) | 1304 (99.6) |
| Flupentixol | 1 (0.1) | 1308 (99.9) |
| Second generation antipsychotics | ||
| Risperidone | 144 (11.0) | 1165 (89.0) |
| Olanzapine | 99 (7.6) | 1210 (92.4) |
| Quetiapine | 96 (7.3) | 1213 (92.7) |
| Sulpiride | 61 (4.7) | 1248 (95.3) |
| Aripiprazole | 32 (2.4) | 1277 (97.6) |
| Amisulpiride | 15 (1.1) | 1294 (98.9) |
| Palperidone | 14 (1.1) | 1295 (98.9) |
| Clozapine | 3 (0.2) | 1306 (99.8) |
| Benzodiazepines | ||
| Lorazepam | 34 (2.6) | 1275 (97.4) |
| Clonazepam | 17 (1.3) | 1292 (98.7) |
| Alprozolam | 19 (1.5) | 1290 (98.5) |
| Diazepam | 3 (0.2) | 1306 (99.8) |
| Nonbenzodiazepine | ||
| Zolpidem | 16 (1.2) | 1293 (98.8) |
| Barbiturates | ||
| Barbitone | 6 (0.5) | 1305 (99.5) |