Medication evidence profile

Etoricoxib

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Clinical overview

Etoricoxib has public medication-list entries in Swe-ABS 2023 and GABS 2018. These are 2 separate source versions, each with its own evidence and definitions.

Source-specific scores

SourceScore
JARSNot listed
Yamada-ABSNot listed
BAASNot listed
Swe-ABS0
GABS1
KABSNot listed
CALSNot listed

How to read this: 0 means the source explicitly assigned zero. “Not listed” means the source did not provide a score for this medication. Scores from different scales are not averaged.

How to interpret the evidence

2 of 7 public source versions contain an explicit medication-list entry for Etoricoxib.

The recorded values differ across the source rows for Etoricoxib. Scale methods, definitions, source eras, evidence types and identity handling can differ; the numbers alone do not establish the reason for this medication’s disagreement.

Swe-ABS 2023 explicitly records zero. Those recorded zeros remain different from a missing entry.

Source labels and provenance · 2 observations
  1. Swedish Anticholinergic Burden Scale 2023

    Source label: Etoricoxib. Published value: 0.
    Source version: SWE-ABS-2023
    Source location: RC4 source recovery; recovery_scope=primary_expert_zero_complete
    Observation: SWE_ABS_2023_R0113; rating state: published_rating.

  2. German Anticholinergic Burden Score 2018

    Source label: Etoricoxib. Published value: 1.
    Source version: GABS-2018
    Source location: RC4 source recovery; recovery_scope=primary_nonzero_complete
    Observation: GABS_2018_R0038; rating state: published_rating.

Dose, route, and formulation notes

Distinct v3 concept retained conservatively; do not collapse by substring or class similarity.

What this page does not establish

  • No medication-list entry is available here from JARS 2025, Yamada-ABS 2023, BAAS 2019, KABS 2020 open validation supplement, and CALS 2022 Table 4. These gaps remain “Not listed”; no score is inferred from another source or from class membership.
  • Use source-specific route/formulation where provided.
  • These source records do not estimate an individual’s probability of harm or establish whether to start, stop or change a medication. Ordinal source scores are not averaged into a UnifiedACB score.

References

  1. Rube T, Ecorcheville A, Londos E, Modig S, Johansson P. Development of the Swedish anticholinergic burden scale (Swe-ABS). BMC Geriatr. 2023;23(1):518. doi:10.1186/s12877-023-04225-1. Open source
  2. Kiesel EK, Hopf YM, Drey M. An anticholinergic burden score for German prescribers: score development. BMC Geriatr. 2018;18(1):239. doi:10.1186/s12877-018-0929-6. Open source

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