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Introduction and purpose: The elderly suffer from various diseases and disabilities more than any age group. Therefore, they have a greater need to use different medicines. Considering the vulnerability of the elderly and the important role of the safety of the elderly admitted to the hospital, this study was aimed at designing the drug safety instruction for the elderly in the general hospital based on a ten-year review of relevant research and designing the items of a safety drug instruction for the elderly.
Materials and methods: A systematic review study was done including universal studies from 2008 to 2018 in the field of drug safety in the elderly. Studies were included according to inclusion and exclusion criteria and reviewed according to STROB criteria (2007). Articles were searched with keywords drug safety, medication, elderly, risk factors, hospital, nurse and equivalent Persian in English databases including ScienceDirect, PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, Medline and Persian databases SID, Magiran, Iranmedex, Irandoc as well as Google Scholar search engine. The data were recorded in the data collection form. After summarizing, they were adjusted as drug safety instructions for the elderly.
Findings: The number of elderly samples in the studies varied from 110 to 385 people. Out of 11 studies, three were conducted in Iran, two in Holland, one in Belgium, one in Brazil, two in America, one in Pakistan, and one in Taiwan. The findings of these studies were set into a drug safety instruction with 20 items that were applicable in the hospital.
Conclusion: According to the findings of this study, a drug safety instruction for the elderly has been designed. Considering that the design of the instruction is the first step in its implementation in the hospital, it is necessary to review the steps for determining the validity of this instruction during a research study, and based on the opinions of experts, and confirm or modify each of their items. Then it is used to maintain or improve the safety of the elderly in the hospital.
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