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Table 3 Medication review results

From: Quality of care for people with multimorbidity – a case series

Discrepancy between sectors in medication lists, %

70

Medication Appropriateness Index

 Patients with medication lists rated as inappropriate, %

78

 Number of inappropriate medications per patient, median (range)

2 (0–6)

 Inappropriate medications as percentage of total medications per patient, % (range)

13 (0–33)

START-STOPP

 Number of START-STOPP points per patient, median (range)

2 (0–5)

 Number of medications per patient with discrepancy between sectors in medication lists, median (range)

1 (0–8)

  1. Abbreviations: START-STOPP screening tool to alert doctors to right treatment and screening tool of older persons’ potentially inappropriate prescriptions