Rivas-Cobas, Paula CarlotaRamírez-Duque, NievesGómez Hernández, MercedesGarcía, JuanaAgustí, AntoniaVidal, XavierFormiga, FrancescLópez-Soto, AlfonsoTorres, Olga HSan-José, Antonioen representación de los investigadores del Proyecto Estudio sobre el Uso Inadecuado de Medicamentos en Pacientes de Edad Avanzada (Proyecto PUMEA)2023-01-252023-01-252016-07-30http://hdl.handle.net/10668/10330To analyse potentially inappropriate prescribing (PIP) in elderly polypathological patients (PP). Multicentre observational, prospective study of 672 patients aged 75 years and older hospitalised in Internal Medicine between April 2011 and March 2012. The Beers, STOPP-START and ACOVE criteria were used to detect potentially inappropriate prescribing and the results of PP and non-PP patients were compared. Of the 672 patients included, 419 (62%) were polypathological, of which 89.3% met PIP criteria versus 79.4% of non-polypathological patients (p Given the high rate of potentially inappropriate prescribing in polypathological patients, strategies to improve prescribing adequacy must be developed.esAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/AdecuaciónAdequacyEdad avanzadaElderlyInappropriate prescriptionMultimorbidityMultimorbilidadPluripatologíaPolifarmaciaPolypathologyPolypharmacyPotentially inappropriate prescribingPrescripción inapropiadaUso inadecuado de medicamentosAgedAged, 80 and overFemaleHumansInappropriate PrescribingMaleMultimorbidityProspective Studiesresearch article27486035open access10.1016/j.gaceta.2016.06.0131578-1283https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gaceta.2016.06.013