UNDERSTANDING that elderly patients with multimorbidity are especially vulnerable to adverse drug events (ADEs), Spanish researchers have identified 51 triggers for detecting potential ADEs in this cohort and essential for enabling timely interventions that can mitigate the ADEs.
The triggers were culled by a panel of experts from an original 72 possibilities and then grouped into five modules: 11 as care module triggers, 10 as antidotes/treatment, 11 medication concentrations, 18 abnormal laboratory values, and one as an emergency department trigger.
Authors wrote that subsequent validation in clinical practice was needed to confirm the accuracy and efficiency of these triggers for this population - CLICK HERE.
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