Drugs and falls in older people: A systematic review and meta-analysis: II. Cardiac and analgesic drugs

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 40-50

  Leipzig, Rosanne M ^a   Cumming, Robert G ^c   Tinetti, Mary E ^b  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c 40 50 ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; CARDIAC AGENT; DIGOXIN; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; LOOP DIURETIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT; THIAZIDE DIURETIC AGENT;

ACCIDENT PRONENESS; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG DOSAGE FORM; FALLING; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; META ANALYSIS; PAIN; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032898797     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.1999.tb01899.x     Document Type: Article

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