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FRID - Fall Risk Increasing Drugs
Leader: Nathalie van der Velde
FOUNDED
September 2017
LINK WITH A SIG
SIG on Falls and Fracture and SIG on Pharmacology
OBJECTIVES
- To update knowledge related to fall-risk-increasing drugs (FRIDs).
- To successfully disseminate knowledge on FRIDs and FRIDs withdrawal to health care workers, students and the older population at risk and thus lessen the use of unnecessary FRIDs in older persons at risk.
- To develop drug withdrawal interventions that are personalized and effective.
- To harmonize practice on this topic across Europe.
OUTCOMES UNTIL 2020
Outcomes: Symposia
In 2017: Symposium on FRIDs at Dutch geriatric days, EU falls festival, EuGMS meeting, and Falls, frailty and bone health conference
In 2018: Symposium on FRIDs at EuGMS meeting
In 2019: Symposium on FRIDs at EuGMS meeting, and World Congress on Falls and Postural Stability
In 2020: Symposium on FRIDs at EuGMS online meeting:
‘TO TREAT OR NOT TO TREAT: DRUG- VERSUS DISEASE-RELATED FALL RISK’
1. ANTIHYPERTENSIVE MEDICATION AND FALLS – GOOD, BAD OR “?” ? by Tomas Welsh
2. DEPRESSION, ANTIDEPRESSANTS & FALL RISK: THERAPEUTIC DILEMMA’S by Nathalie van der Velde
3. RISK OF FALLING – AN IMPACT OF PAIN AND USE OF ANALGETICS by Sirpa Hartikainen
Outcomes: Publications
Please see list below
Outcomes: Educational materials
A leaflet about FRIDs for public dissemination.
English:
Dutch:
Spanish:
Czech:
We encourage European countries to adopt and test the material, translating where necessary (Seppala et al. Drugs Aging 2019). Before doing so, please contact: Lotta Seppälä (l.j.seppala(at)amsterdamumc.nl)
PROJECTS, EVENTS IN 2021, 2022
Ongoing projects:
- Preparation of working materials for knowledge dissemination for students and healthcare professionals
- Online surveys on wishes and needs of doctors and patients regarding clinical decision support system communicating medication-related fall risk and current practice of medication management in older fallers
NEXT MEETING OF THE GROUP
EuGMS 2021 Congress in Athens, Greece
PUBLICATIONS
(Please also refer to Outcomes section of this page)
L.J. Seppala, M. Petrovic, J. Ryg, G. Bahat, E. Topinkova, K. Szczerbińska, T.J.M. van der Cammen, S. Hartikainen, B. Ilhan, F. Landi, Y. Morrissey, A. Mair, M. Gutiérrez-Valencia, M.H. Emmelot-Vonk, M.A. Caballero Mora, M. Denkinger, P. Crome, S.H.D. Jackson, A. Correa-Pérez, W. Knol, G. Soulis, A. Gudmundsson, G. Ziere, M. Wehling, D. O’Mahony, A. Cherubini, N. van der Velde. STOPPFall (Screening Tool of Older Persons Prescriptions in older adults with high fall risk): a Delphi study by the EuGMS Task and Finish Group on Fall-Risk-Increasing Drugs. Age and Ageing 2020; 1-11 doi: 10.1093/ageing/afaa249
Link to accompanying deprescribing tool for STOPPFalls: https://kik.amc.nl/falls/decision-tree/
Seppala LJ, van der Velde N, Masud T, Blain H, Petrovic M, van der Cammen TJ, Szczerbińska K, Hartikainen S, Kenny RA, Ryg J, Eklund P, Topinková E, Mair A, Laflamme L, Thaler H, Bahat G, Gutiérrez-Valencia M, Caballero-Mora MA, Landi F, Emmelot-Vonk MH; EuGMS Task and Finish Group on Fall-Risk-Increasing Drugs, Cherubini A, Baeyens JP, Correa-Pérez A, Gudmundsson A, Marengoni A, O'Mahony D, Parekh N, Pisa FE, Rajkumar C, Wehling M, Ziere G; EuGMS Special Interest Group on Pharmacology. EuGMS Task and Finish group on Fall-Risk-Increasing Drugs (FRIDs): Position on Knowledge Dissemination, Management, and Future Research. Published in Drugs Aging. 2019 Apr;36(4):299-307 and Eur Geriatr Med (2019) 10: 275.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs40266-018-0622-7
de Vries M, Seppala LJ, Daams JG, van de Glind EMM, Masud T, van der Velde N; EUGMS Task and Finish Group on Fall-Risk-Increasing Drugs. Fall-Risk-Increasing Drugs: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis: I. Cardiovascular Drugs. Published in J Am Med Dir Assoc. 2018 Apr;19(4):371.e1-371.e9.
https://www.jamda.com/article/S1525-8610(17)30698-9/abstract
Seppala LJ, Wermelink AMAT, de Vries M, Ploegmakers KJ, van de Glind EMM, Daams JG, van der Velde N; EUGMS task and Finish group on fall-risk-increasing drugs. Fall-Risk-Increasing Drugs: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis: II. Psychotropics. Published in J Am Med Dir Assoc. 2018 Apr;19(4):371.e11-371.e17.
https://www.jamda.com/article/S1525-8610(17)30784-3/abstract
Seppala LJ, van de Glind EMM, Daams JG, Ploegmakers KJ, de Vries M, Wermelink AMAT, van der Velde N; EUGMS Task and Finish Group on Fall-Risk-Increasing Drugs. Fall-Risk-Increasing Drugs: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis: III. Others. Published in J Am Med Dir Assoc. 018 Apr;19(4):372.e1-372.e8.
https://www.jamda.com/article/S1525-8610(17)30785-5/abstract
GROUP MEMBERS
Austria: Heinrich Thaler
Belgium: Mirko Petrovic
Czech Republic: Eva Topinková
Denmark: Jesper Ryg
Finland: Sirpa Hartikainen
France: Hubert Blain, Jean Bousquet
Ireland: Irene O’Byrne-Maguire, Rose Anne Kenny
Italy: Francesco Landi
Netherlands: Tischa van der Cammen, Marielle Emmelot-Vonk, Nathalie van der Velde, Lotta Seppälä
Poland: Katarzyna Szczerbińska
Spain: Leocadio Rodriguez Mañas, Marta Gutiérrez-Valencia, Maria Angeles Caballero-Mora
Sweden: Lucie Laflamme, Gösta Bucht, Yngve Gustafsson, Olle Svensson, Patrik Eklund, Ulrika Pettersson-Kymmer
Turkey: Gulistan Bahat, Birkan Ilhat
UK: Tash Masud, Alpana Mair, Tomas Welsh, Yvonne Morrissey
Outcome
Task and Finish Group on Fall-Risk-Increasing DrugsFall-Risk-Increasing Drugs: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis: I. Cardiovascular Drugs
Fall-Risk-Increasing Drugs: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis: II. Psychotropics
Fall-Risk-Increasing Drugs: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis: III. Others
Leaflet Medication Falls English