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Is It Safe to Conclude that Beers Criteria Medications Led to Few Adverse Events?
- Adam Golden, MD, MBA;
- Mark H. Beers, MD; and
- Donna M. Fick, RN, PhD
- From Miami Veterans Affairs Medical Center and University of Miami, Miami, FL 33125, and Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802.
TO THE EDITOR:
Budnitz and colleagues (1) recently reported on emergency department visits attributed to adverse drug reactions in the elderly. Although the authors identified medications that represent an important safety risk to the elderly, we disagree with their conclusion that the “Beers criteria medications caused low numbers of and few risks for emergency department visits for adverse events.” Their method of identifying attribution of risk may be severely flawed for several reasons.
The authors required that the emergency department physician …
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