Supportive
Care in Cancer, January 2015, vol./is. 23/1(71-8)
Lindsay
J, Dooley M, Martin J, Fay M, Kearney A, Khatun M, Barras M
Current data suggests that potentially
inappropriate medicines (PIMs) are common in palliative cancer patients;
however, there is a lack of criteria to assist clinicians in identifying PIMs
in these patients. A guideline to assist in the de-escalation of
inappropriate medications was developed from
current literature.