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The St Vincent's potentially inappropriate medicines study: development of a disease-specific consensus list and its evaluation in ambulatory heart failure care.

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AIMS:Heart failure (HF) patients may be at risk of prescription of potentially inappropriate medicines (PIMs) yet no disease-specific list is available to assess PIM use in this population. A Consensus Potentially Inappropriate Medicines in Heart Failure (PIMHF) list was developed, assessed, and compared with an established, general tool in an ambulatory HF population. METHODS AND RESULTS:The Consensus PIMHF list was compiled using modified Delphi methodology with a multidisciplinary team. The list consisted of 11 items. The medication profile of 350 patients was assessed. The association of a Consensus PIMHF item use over a median follow-up period of 1.8 (interquartile range 1.3-2.1) years with the primary endpoint of death, acute hospitalization, or unscheduled outpatient visit was examined. Fifty-one patients (14.6%) were prescribed ≥1 Consensus PIMHF item. In univariable analysis, patients prescribed ≥1 Consensus PIMHF item were 58% more likely to experience the primary endpoint than those with none [95% confidence interval (CI) 1.02-2.45]. When adjusted for age, sex, and HF severity, this difference remained [hazard ratio (HR) 1.88, 95% CI 1.16-3.06] and these associations were in contrast to the use of a more general tool (HR 1.24, 95% CI 0.83-1.84). However, when further adjusted to include co-morbidity score and polypharmacy, there was no association with outcome using either tool (HR 1.40, 95% CI 0.83-2.38; HR 1.05, 95% CI 0.69-1.60, respectively). CONCLUSION:The Consensus PIMHF list provides the first HF-specific medicines review tool. These results provide some support for more disease-specific tools with limited lists of PIMs to rationalize medicines management in HF. However, more prospective work on the application of these tools in practice is needed.

journal_name

Eur J Heart Fail

journal_title

European journal of heart failure

authors

Bermingham M,Ryder M,Travers B,Edwards N,Lalor L,Kelly D,Gallagher J,O'Hanlon R,McDonald K,Ledwidge M

doi

10.1002/ejhf.132

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2014-08-01 00:00:00

pages

915-22

issue

eissn

1388-9842

issn

1879-0844

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The St Vincent's potentially inappropriate medicines study: development of a disease-specific consensus list and its evaluation in ambulatory heart failure care.