Prevalence of Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use in Older Adults Using the 2012 Beers Criteria

To use the most recently available population‐based data to estimate potentially inappropriate medication (PIM) prevalence under the 2012 update of the Beers list of PIMs and to provide a benchmark from which to measure future changes.

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