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Response to letter by Masse O et al. STOPP/START version 3: clinical pharmacists are raising alarms

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  1. Department of Medicine (Geriatric Medicine), School of Medicine, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

    Denis O’Mahony

  2. Department of Geriatric Medicine, Cork University Hospital, Wilton, Cork, Ireland

    Denis O’Mahony & Denis Curtin

  3. Geriatria, Accettazione geriatrica e Centro di ricerca per l’invecchiamento, IRCCS INRCA, Ancona, Italy

    Antonio Cherubini

  4. Department of Geriatric Medicine, Parc de Salut Mar, Barcelona, Spain

    Anna Renom Guiteras

  5. Institute for Geriatric Research, University of Ulm Geriatric Center, Ulm/Alb-Donau, Germany

    Michael Denkinger

  6. Univ. Lille, CHU Lille, ULR 2694-METRICS: Évaluation des Technologies de santé et des pratiques médicales, 59000, Lille, France

    Jean-Baptiste Beuscart

  7. Fondazione Policlinico Gemelli IRCCS and Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy

    Graziano Onder

  8. Landspitali University Hospital, Reykjavik, Iceland

    Adalsteinn Gudmundsson

  9. Servicio de Geriatría, Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal (IRYCIS), Madrid, Spain

    Alfonso J. Cruz-Jentoft

  10. Department of Geriatric Medicine and Expertise Centre Pharmacotherapy in Old Persons (EPHOR), University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Wilma Knol

  11. Department of Internal Medicine (Division of Geriatrics), Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey

    Gülistan Bahat

  12. Section of Geriatric Medicine and Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam UMC Location University of Amsterdam, Internal Medicine, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Nathalie van der Velde

  13. Department of Internal Medicine and Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium

    Mirko Petrovic

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O’Mahony, D., Cherubini, A., Guiteras, A.R. et al. Response to letter by Masse O et al. STOPP/START version 3: clinical pharmacists are raising alarms. Eur Geriatr Med 15, 593–596 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41999-024-00958-3

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