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Getting to the Next Level

Jerry Avorn, MD

JAMA. 2001;286:2866-2868.

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The sensation of déjà vu is always unsettling, more so if the event reexperienced is an unpleasant one. In this issue of THE JOURNAL, Zhan and colleagues¹ provide a reprise of a now-classic tale in geriatric pharmacology and remind physicians of a persistent and troublesome issue in the care of the elderly population. The authors adapted a well-known list of drugs to be avoided in elderly patients^2-4 and apply it to data describing medication use among a nationally representative sample of older Americans, collected in 1996. Their study represents an update of studies based on data from 1987⁵ and 1992.⁶ Extrapolating from their sample to the United States as a whole, Zhan et al¹ estimate that 2.6% of the US population older than 65 years took 1 or more of 11 drugs that should never be used in this age group.

Zhan et al¹ also report that . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Author Affiliation: Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Mass.

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