Drug-related problems (DRPs) in geriatrics: a prescription analysis

The reasons why older adults are vulnerable to DRPs are because of changes of physiology that cause by the aging process and it may alter the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamic properties of medications. Second reason is because they often have multimorbidity and are prescribed with a lot of drugs and medications. this study is conducted to evaluate the occurrence of DRPs in geriatric patients. A cross sectional study was conducted at outpatient pharmacy department of HT AR. Three months prescriptions were collected to represent the whole year of 2014. The most frequent type of DRPs experienced by geriatric patients is unnecessary drug prescribed to patients. Besides, the variable of drug classification may also contribute to the occurrence of DRPs in geriatrics. DRPs is an issue in geriatric population and classification of drugs may become risk factor to the occurrence of DRPs in geriatric patients.