Table 3.
Hospital pharmacists practice to reduce potentially inappropriate medication use in elderly (n = 66)
| Variables | Strongly disagree n (%) |
Disagree n (%) |
Neutral n (%) |
Agree n (%) |
Strongly Agree n (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I always ask elderly patients for their ages. | 4 (6.1) | 2 (3.0) | 26 (39.4) | 24 (36.4) | 10 (15.2) |
| I always ask patients especially elderly patients for their medical history. | 2 (3.0) | 0 (0.0) | 4 (6.1) | 33 (50.0) | 27 (40.9) |
| Patients’ age is always a key factor for me when dispensing medications, especially elderly patients. | 1 (1.5) | 2 (3.0) | 11 (16.7) | 36 (54.5) | 16 (24.2) |
| I always look for drug interactions especially drug-disease interactions when recommending and dispensing medications to elderly patients. | 1 (1.5) | 1 (1.5) | 0 (0.0) | 32 (48.5) | 32 (48.5) |
| I have confidence in the care I provide for elderly patients. | 1 (1.5) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 34 (51.5) | 31 (47.0) |
| Practice of Beers’ Criteria | |||||
| Poor Practice (< 80%) | 11 | 16.7 | |||
| Good Practice (> 80%) | 55 | 83.3 | |||
Maximum obtainable score = 25; % individual score = score obtained by an individual ÷ by total obtainable score × 100. Strongly agree (SA) = 5, Agree (A) = 4, Undecided (U) = 3, Disagree(D) = 2, Strongly disagree (SD) = 1