Potentially Inappropriate Medications for the Elderly

Potentially Inappropriate Medications for the Elderly According to the Revised Beers Criteria

The list of drugs below is a summary of information from the following report in Archives of Internal Medicine:

Fick DM, Cooper JW, Wade WE, Waller JL, Maclean JR, Beers MH. Updating the Beers criteria for potentially inappropriate medication use in older adults: results of a US consensus panel of experts. Arch Intern Med. 2003;163:2716-2724. [ Link ]

Click on the name of each medication or medication class for detailed information from MEDLINEplus, a service of the US National Library of Medicine.