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PIMBase

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URL: https://pimbase.kalis-amts.de
Full name: Data-Driven Assessment of Potentially Inappropriate Medication in the Elderly
Description: Multimorbid patients taking polypharmacy represent a growing population at high risk for inappropriate prescribing. Various lists for identifying potentially inappropriate medication are spread across scientific journals and difficult to access. To address this ongoing need, a new database named PIMBase is developed which integrates these well-known lists and unifies their rating scales. The analysis of the pharmacovigilance data reveals the benefits of combining the lists. PIMBase is meant to be a web-based system and starting point for the data-driven assessment of polypharmacy to identify inappropriate medication and to improve the quality of prescribing
Year founded: 2018
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Country/Region: Germany

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University/Institution: Bielefeld University
Address: Bioinformatics/Medical Informatics Department, Bielefeld University, Germany.
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Country/Region: Germany
Contact name (PI/Team): Marcel Friedrichs
Contact email (PI/Helpdesk): mfriedrichs@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de

Publications

30147056
Data-Driven Assessment of Potentially Inappropriate Medication in the Elderly. [PMID: 30147056]
Marcel Friedrichs, Alban Shoshi, Maren Kleine

Multimorbid patients taking polypharmacy represent a growing population at high risk for inappropriate prescribing. Various lists for identifying potentially inappropriate medication are spread across scientific journals and difficult to access. To address this ongoing need, a new database named PIMBase is developed which integrates these well-known lists and unifies their rating scales. The analysis of the pharmacovigilance data reveals the benefits of combining the lists. PIMBase is meant to be a web-based system and starting point for the data-driven assessment of polypharmacy to identify inappropriate medication and to improve the quality of prescribing. PIMBase is available at https://pimbase.kalis-amts.de.

Stud Health Technol Inform. 2018:253() | 1 Citations (from Europe PMC, 2025-12-13)

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All databases:
6746/6895 (2.175%)
Health and medicine:
1701/1738 (2.186%)
6746
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Created on: 2019-10-26
Curated by:
irfan Hussain [2019-11-18]
Amjad Ali [2019-10-26]