General medical and ethical problems of drug treatment in the elderly

Therapie

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 424-428

  Wolf, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Drug treatment; Elderly; Ethical concept of competence; Polymorbidity; Polypharmacy

Indexed keywords

AGED; CONFERENCE PAPER; DECISION MAKING; DRUG THERAPY; ETHICS; MORBIDITY; PHARMACOKINETICS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ASPECT;

AGED; DRUG THERAPY; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ETHICS, MEDICAL; GERMANY; HUMANS; MEDICINE; MORBIDITY; PHARMACOKINETICS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0029761276     PISSN: 00405957     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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