BEERS Criteria

2012 Beers Criteria.

Updated 2012 Beers Criteria: what's noteworthy and cautionary?

The Beers Criteria for potentially inappropriate medication use in older adults, originally published in 1991, have gone through several iterations.1 The initial publication focused exclusively on nursing home residents, providing a list of medications where the potential for harm exceeded the potential for beneficial effects. The criteria have arguably been influential in providing guidance fo...

2012 updated Beers Criteria: greater applicability to Europe?

To the Editor: We read with interest the article on the 2012 Beers Criteria updated by the American Geriatrics Society and recently published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. The authors are to be commended for this important work. As clinicians and researchers, we particularly appreciate the evidence-based approach and the addition of several medications recently marketed for...

Beers' criteria for potentially inappropriate medication use in the elderly.

BEST TOOL: The adapted Beers’ Criteria (HCFA Guidelines for Potentially Inappropriate Medications in the Elderly) identifies medications noted by an expert panel to have potential risks that outweigh potential benefits of the drug. The criteria are appropriate for persons older than 65 years of age, regardless of their level of frailty. The criteria provide a rating of severity for adverse outc...

2012 American Geriatrics Society Beers Criteria: new year, new criteria, new perspective.

Mark Beers, MD, recognized more than 2 decades ago that the prevention of adverse drug events in older adults is crucial to the public health of this vulnerable population. The Beers Criteria remain simultaneously one of the most used and most controversial sets of medication criteria in the world. Although not without limitations, the Beers Criteria have done more than any other tool in the pa...