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The Department of Clinical Pharmacy discussed the pharm d program at the College of Medicine and Health Sciences at the university, the graduation research of the first group of students for the academic year 2021-2022, in the presence of the Dean of the College, Prof. Ali Yahyi. The paper presented was entitled: Evaluation of a Potentially Inappropriate Medications Using American Geriatrics Society (AGS) Beers Criteria 2019 among Hospitalized Patients in a Private Hospital in Sana’a, Yemen. Assessment of the potential risks of inappropriate medications using the 2019 American Elderly Association Beer Criteria among patients of a private hospital in Sana'a, Yemen. The aim of the research is to evaluate and determine the inappropriate prescriptions among patients in a private hospital in Sana'a - Yemen, and to determine the multiplicity of drugs for these patients, in addition to identifying the most important drug interactions with each other and their overlap with diseases. This study is considered one of the few studies applied according to the 2019 Beers criteria. The study population included 100 medical cases for 100 hospitalized patients during the month of October of 2021, 60 medical cases were males, equivalent to 60%, and 40 females, equivalent to 40%. The study showed that the most prevalent pathological pattern was cardiovascular disease, with 26 cases, equivalent to 26%. The results of the study, which were based on the Beer criteria for the year 2019, showed that among the drugs prescribed to the elderly, 18 drugs should be avoided in entry prescriptions and 14 medicines should have been avoided in exit prescriptions. Regarding drugs that are used with caution, the average was 10 drugs and drug groups in entry prescriptions and 7 in exit prescriptions. As for the drugs that should be avoided or their dose reduced according to the different levels of renal function, they were 4 drugs for each of the entry and exit prescriptions. Regarding the multiplicity of medications, it was found that 39 patients, equivalent to 39%, were using multiple medications in the entry prescriptions, and 33 patients, equivalent to 33%, in the exit prescriptions. The results also revealed that 33 of the patients showed one drug interaction in their admission prescriptions, at a rate of 33%, and 17 single drug interactions in their exit prescriptions, equivalent to 17%. While it was noted in the patients' admission prescriptions that the drug interactions among them, which included more than one interaction, were 21, equivalent to 21%, and 2 in their discharge prescriptions, equivalent to 2%. With regard to the interaction of drugs with diseases, there were 4 drug interactions with diseases in each of the entry and exit prescriptions, which is equivalent to 4%. The research made a number of recommendations, the most prominent of which was that doctors should be aware and give more attention while prescribing medications, and clinical pharmacists should be present in all hospital branches to correct such errors, in addition to that all geriatric drugs should be subject to Beers standards. criteria) to avoid its inappropriate use.