Jørund Straand

TL;DR: The NORGEP criteria may serve as rules of thumb for general practitioners related to their prescribing practice for elderly patients, and as a tool for evaluating the quality of GPs’ prescribing in settings where access to clinical information for individual patients is limited, e.g. in prescription databases and quality improvement interventions.

TL;DR: Three of four nursing home residents had clinically relevant medication problems, most of which were accounted for by psychoactive drugs.

TL;DR: The intervention led to improved antibiotic prescribing for respiratory tract infections in a representative sample of Norwegian general practitioners, and the courses were feasible to the general practitioners.

TL;DR: Psychotropic drugs are used by a majority of nursing home residents as long-term symptomatic treatment, and the great variations between the institutions can only to a small extent be explained by quantitative differences between the Institutions.

TL;DR: Drug prescribing in general practice for elderly patients is described, using patients' age and sex, encounters, indications for prescribing and the occurrence of some predefined inappropriate drug prescriptions to identify prescribing problems.