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The use of therapeutic flags to assist GPs prescribing for older persons
1Faculty of Health, Science and Medicine, Bond University, Queensland. cbonner@mediflags.com
Background:
Prescribing for older persons can present challenges for general practitioners.
Methods:
Forty-one GPs used a series of statements about appropriate drug use (therapeutic flags) to review the medications of 727 older patients.
Results:
Following the review, 14.5% of prescribed medications were changed including 6% stopped. Another 7% were associated with other activities such as monitoring of therapy as recommended by guidelines. General practitioners regarded therapeutic flags as informative and suggested they should be integrated with prescribing software.
Discussion:
Therapeutic flags may assist the provision of quality medication to older patients.
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