Quality of medication prescription in older adults

Amalia Matos Rodríguez, Yunaisys Mosqueda Lobaina, Dariel Marín González and Lisbet Thalia Díaz Soler

Salud Integral y Comunitaria, 2026, vol. 4, 234-234

Abstract: Introduction: the prescription to the biggest adult had characteristic own that differentiate them since of other age groups concomitan numerous illnesses that increase with declining of the life. Objective: to evaluate the quality of the prescription of medications in adults bigger belonging to the clinic 10 of the Policlínico Asdrúbal López Vázquez of the municipality Guantánamo. Method: He/she was carried out a descriptive, retrospective study, of traverse court during the period of June of 2023-April of the 2024. The study universe was conformed by 172 adults bigger than 60 years of which took a sample of 86 patients by means of the technique of sampling non probabilístico. The variables to investigate were age, sex, educational level, personal pathological antecedents, polypharmacy, indicators of quality. Results: the feminine sex prevailed, the antecedents pathological personnels of Arterial Hypertension, Diabetes Mellitus Type II and Inadequacy Renal Chronicle. The indicators more affected in the inadequate Medication belonging to the Axis 1 they were the sixteen, the fifteen, the four, the ten and both. In the Axis 2 appropriate Medication he/she hurtled as the most significant indicators the 23, the 21 and the 20 and they were arrived to final considerations. Conclusions: the results obtained in the evaluation of the quality of the prescription of medications in old men constituted an instrument to avoid the inadequate prescriptions and interactions medicamentosas that take to the biological and functional deterioration of the same ones.

Date: 2026
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DOI: 10.62486/sic2026234

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