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. 2021 Nov 24;9(4):189. doi: 10.3390/pharmacy9040189

Table 2.

Percentage of potentially inappropriate medication prescribing (PIP) criteria occurrence at baseline.

PIP Criteria-Based Tools Baseline Occurrence, n (%)
• European List of Potentially Inappropriate Medications in Older People (EU(7)-PIM list) 900 (59%)
• Screening Tool to Alert to Right Treatment (START) version 2 783 (51%)
• Screening Tool of Older Persons’ Prescriptions (STOPP) version 2 659 (43%)
• Clinical practice indicators of Alert and Mastering of medication Iatrogenicity (AMI) proposed by the French National Authority for Health (HAS) related to medication prescriptions in older subjects 212 (14%)
• Market withdrawals by the French National Agency for Medicines and Health Products Safety (ANSM) or the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for safety reasons 79 (5%)
• Contraindications listed in the medications’ Summary of Product Characteristics (SmPC) 13 (1%)

Legend: PIP = potentially inappropriate medication prescribing.