Table 5.

Top 12 cited references in studies on medication safety for older adults.

Rank	Title	Year	First authors	Journal	Citation
1	American geriatrics society 2015 updated beers criteria for potentially inappropriate medication use in older adults	2015	S. Radcliff	Journal of the American Geriatrics Society	133
2	STOPP/START criteria for potentially inappropriate prescribing in older people: version 2	2015	D. O'Mahony	Age and Aging	129
3	American geriatrics society updated beers criteria for potentially inappropriate medication use in older adults	2012	D. M. Fick	Journal of the American Geriatrics Society	114
4	Reducing inappropriate polypharmacy: the process of deprescribing	2015	I. A. Scott	Journal of the American Medical Association Internal Medicine	66
5	American geriatrics society 2019 updated AGS beers criteria for potentially inappropriate medication use in older adults	2019	D. M. Fick	Journal of the American Geriatrics Society	53
6	What is polypharmacy? A systematic review of definitions	2017	N. Masnoon	BMC Geriatrics	52
7	Updating the beers criteria for potentially inappropriate medication use in older adults	2003	D. M. Fick	Archives of Internal Medicine	50
8	Medication use leading to emergency department visits for adverse drug events in older adults	2007	D. S. Budnitz	Annals of Internal Medicine	48
9	Potentially inappropriate medications defined by STOPP criteria and the risk of adverse drug events in older hospitalized patients	2011	H. Hamilton	Archives of Internal Medicine	47
10	Emergency hospitalizations for adverse drug events in older Americans	2011	D. S. Budnitz	New England Journal of Medicine	46
11	Appropriate prescribing in elderly people: how well can it be measured and optimized?	2007	A. Spinewine	Lancet	46
12	STOPP (Screening Tool of Older Persons' Prescriptions) and START (Screening Tool to Alert Doctors to Right Treatment): consensus validation	2008	P. Gallagher	International Journal of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics	46