Potentially Inappropriate Medications (PIMs)
Identifying Attributes
Care Settings
Dementia Care
Country
Sweden
Publishing Organisation
Swedish Dementia Registry (SveDem)
Type of Quality Indicator
Outcome
IOM Quality Dimension
Safety
Domain
Interventions to Promote Cognition, Independence and Wellbeing
Defining Attributes
Definition
Potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs)
Numerator
Patients with PIMs (three criteria: the Swedish quality indicators, the EU(7)-PIM list and the AGS Beers Criteria.)
Denominator
All patients
Exclusions
Use of Risk Adjustment
No
Risk Adjustments
Stratifications
Unit, region
Collection and Reporting Attributes
Type of Data Collection
Standardised clinical data
Data Collection Methods
Data entered by participating sites into a secure online platform
Frequency of Data Collection
Continuous
Frequency of Data Collection in Days
1
Reporting Methods
Online onhttps://register.ucr.uu.se/svedempublic, Annual Report, reports to sites
Reporting Frequency
Annually
Reporting Frequency in Days
365
Indicator Has Recommended Targets
No
Source and Reference Attributes
Evidence Source
Sonnerstam, E., Harlin, F., & Gustafsson, M. (2023). Potentially inappropriate medications among elderly people with neurocognitive disorders - A nationwide register-based study using 3 different explicit criteria. Research in social & administrative pharmacy : RSAP, 19(5), 758-763.
Technical Specifications
Link to Measurement Tools
Quality Indicator Confirmed to be Part of a Program Used to Monitor Quality and Safety of Care Among Older People at a Population-Level between 2012-2022
No
Assessed by the Australian Consortium for Aged Care Collaborators as Generally Containing Good Properties (Importance and Scientific Acceptability)
No
Australian Consortium for Aged Care Endorsed
No
Identified by PHARMA-Care Project
No
Upload Date
02 December 2025
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Date Modified 02 December 2025