Efforts to reduce inappropriate medications in elderly ICU survivors should target specific classes commonly initiated in the ICU.
Supports focusing deprescribing on specific ICU-initiated PIMs in elderly survivors; hypothesis-generating for outcome trials.
Certain types of PIMs, which are commonly initiated in the ICU, are more frequently considered inappropriate upon clinical review. Efforts to reduce AIMs in elderly ICU survivors should target these specific classes of medications.
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