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Item Potentially inappropriate medication use in the elderly: physicians’ and hospital pharmacists knowledge, practice, confdence, and barriers(Springer Nature, 2020) Akande Sholabi.W.; Fafemi. A.Background: Inappropriate medication prescribing and dispensing by physicians and pharmacists is a preventable cause of morbidity and mortality in the elderly. Signifying the importance of healthcare professionals’ knowledge of potentially inappropriate prescribing tools/ guidelines which would improve overall health outcomes. Beers Criteria is one of the most used guidelines that list specifc potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs). This study aimed to investigate physicians’ and hospital pharmacists’ awareness, knowledge, practice, confdence, and barriers to the use of Beers criteria. Methods: A cross-sectional survey was carried out among 66 hospital pharmacists and 31 family medicine physi cians working in a teaching hospital in Nigeria, between May and September 2021 using a self-administered ques tionnaire. Knowledge of PIMs was assessed using 11 clinical vignettes based on the 2019 Beers Criteria. Practice behavior towards elderly patients was assessed using a 5-item statement with a 5-point Likert scale. Perceived barriers to the appropriate use of Beers Criteria were assessed using a 15-item statement. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the data. Results: A total of 66 hospital pharmacists and 31 family medicine physicians participated in the study. Only (24; 36.4%) pharmacists and (4; 12.9%) physicians knew guidelines that listed specifc PIMs. In all (21; 31.8%) pharmacists and (11; 35.4%) physicians demonstrated good knowledge of Beers Criteria, while most pharmacists (55; 83.3%) and physicians (29; 93.5%) reported good practice when dealing with elderly patients in terms of asking relevant ques tions and considering their ages while dispensing medications. Knowledge scores were not signifcantly associated with hospital pharmacists’ socio-demographics. Most of the physicians and pharmacists were confdent in the care provided for geriatric patients. The majority (66; 100.0%) pharmacists and (28; 93.5%) physicians suggested training through seminar presentations as a measure to improve the use of Beers’ criteria. Lack of time to counsel patients was a major barrier recounted by both physicians and pharmacists. Conclusion: Healthcare professionals that participated in this study had satisfactory practice, although a gap in the knowledge of hospital pharmacists and family medicine physicians was noted. In addition to creating aware ness among healthcare professionals and training on PIMs and Beers’ criteria, a multidisciplinary approach to reduce potentially inappropriate prescribing and dispensing would greatly help reduce the incidence of potentially inappro priate medication use among elderly patients.Item Beers criteria and potentially inappropriate medications in elderly: awareness, practice, knowledge and barriers among community pharmacists in Nigeria(Springer Open, 2022) Akande Sholabi,W.; Fafemi, A.Background: Potential inappropriate medications (PIMs) used in the elderly are an avoidable source of disease and death. Beers Criteria is among the commonly used measures that document PIMs. Community pharmacists’ knowl edge on PIMs and existing criteria are essential to moderate the use of PIMs which would enhance overall health outcomes and costs. This study investigates awareness, knowledge, practice, and barriers of PIMs among community pharmacists in Ibadan, Nigeria. Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out on 109 community pharmacists with the use of a self-administered questionnaire. Nine clinical vignettes based on the 2019 Beers Criteria were used to evaluate PIMs knowledge. Prac tice behavior regarding elderly clients was evaluated using a 5-point Likert scale with six items. Data were summa rized by descriptive and inferential statistics. Results: Respondents who knew guidelines that listed specifc PIMs were (49; 47.1%), and of these, (21; 42.9%) were aware of Beers Criteria. From all the respondents, only 45 (41.3%) demonstrated good knowledge of Beers Criteria, while 82 (75.2%) narrated good practice when dealing with elderly clients in terms of asking suitable questions and contemplating their ages while dispensing medications. Major barrier identifed was lack of knowledge of Beers Crite ria (80; 73.4%). Pharmacists who were aware of Beers Criteria statistically had better knowledge than others (p=0.003). Conclusion: Beers Criteria awareness among community pharmacists is sub-optimal in Ibadan, Nigeria. Although practice when dealing with elderly customers was satisfactory, the knowledge was unsatisfactory. This underscores the need to intensify the awareness and use of guidelines that document specifc PIMs such as Beers Criteria among community pharmacists.