Inappropriate drug prescribing and related outcomes for elderly Medicaid beneficiaries residing in nursing homes

Clinical Therapeutics

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 183-196

  Gupta, Sanjay ^a   Rappaport, Harvey M ^a   Bennett, Lonnie T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT MONROE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANTIEMETIC AGENT; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; CHLORDIAZEPOXIDE; CHLORPROPAMIDE; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DEXTROPROPOXYPHENE; DIAZEPAM; FLURAZEPAM; HYPNOTIC AGENT; INDOMETACIN; MEPROBAMATE; METHYLDOPA; MUSCLE RELAXANT AGENT; ORAL ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; PENTAZOCINE; PENTOBARBITAL; PHENYLBUTAZONE; PROPRANOLOL; RESERPINE; SECOBARBITAL; SEDATIVE AGENT; SPASMOLYTIC AGENT; UNINDEXED DRUG;

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; COST CONTROL; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAID; MORTALITY; NURSING HOME; PHARMACOECONOMICS; PHARMACY; PRESCRIPTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0029847263     PISSN: 01492918     EISSN: 1879114X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0149-2918(96)80189-5     Document Type: Article

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