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Table 2 Community pharmacists' practice to reduce potentially inappropriate medications use in elderly (n = 109)

From: Beers criteria and potentially inappropriate medications in elderly: awareness, practice, knowledge and barriers among community pharmacists in Nigeria

Variables

Strongly disagree

n (%)

Disagree

n (%)

Neutral

n (%)

Agree

n (%)

Strongly agree

n (%)

I always ask elderly patients for their ages

4 (3.7)

15 (13.8)

33 (30.3)

38 (34.9)

19 (17.4)

I always ask patients especially elderly patients for their medical history

1 (0.9)

1 (0.9)

2 (1.8)

56 (53.2)

47 (43.1)

Patients' age is always a key factor for me when dispensing medications especially elderly patients

0 (0.0)

3 (2.8)

18 (16.5)

42 (38.5)

46 (42.2)

I always look for drug interactions especially drug-disease interactions when recommending and dispensing medications to elderly patients

1(0.9)

0 (0.0)

2 (1.8)

57 (52.3)

49 (45.0)

I regularly refer to other resources like BNF, Emdex when providing care to patients especially elderly patients

1 (0.9)

5 (4.6)

11 (10.1)

47 (43.1)

45 (41.3)

I have confidence in the care I provide for elderly patients

1 (0.9)

1 (0.9)

1 (0.9)

55 (50.5)

51 (46.8)

Knowledge of Beers’ criteria

Good practice (≥ 80%)

  

82

 

75.2

Poor practice (< 80%)

  

27

 

24.8

  1. Maximum obtainable score = 30; % individual score = score obtained by an individual ÷ by total obtainable score × 100. Strongly agree (SA) = 5, Agree (A) = 4, Neutral (N) = 3, Disagree(D) = 2, Strongly disagree (SD) = 1