Year 2013 / Volume 105 / Number 6
Letter to the Editor
Inappropriate use of proton pump inhibitors, guidelines and clinical research

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Julián Solís-García-del-Pozo1, Montserrat Pérez-Pinar1, Pilar Fernández-Jiménez1 and Ignacio Marañés-Antoñanzas2

Abstract
Dear Editor,
We have read with interest the paper by Sanchez-Cuén JA et al. (1) on inadequate indications in the chronic use of proton pump inhibitors (PPIs), as well as the editorial on rationalizing the use of PPIs by Ponce and Esplugues (2).
We performed a retrospective study focusing on the prescrip- tion of PPIs and H2 blockers during hospitalization in the Inter- nal Medicine service of the hospital of Villarrobledo (Albacete, Spain) (3). In this study, hospitalization episodes were analyzed for a month, 147 episodes in total. Out of these patients, 118 (80.3%) received PPIs or H2 blockers during hospitalization although, before admission, only 72 patients (49%) were receiv- ing these medications and at discharge they were prescribed to 81 patients (60%). Moreover, PPIs and H2 blockers were not indicated in over half of the patients receiving these drugs dur- ing hospitalization. The increase of hospital stay was associated with a greater proportion of patients taking PPIs or H2 blockers.
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Julián Solís-García-del-Pozo1, Montserrat Pérez-Pinar1, Pilar Fernández-Jiménez1 and Ignacio Marañés-Antoñanzas2. Inappropriate use of proton pump inhibitors, guidelines and clinical research. 373


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