Serum anticholinergic activity changes with acute illness in elderly medical patients

Journals of Gerontology - Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 1999, Pages

  Flacker, Jonathan M ^a,b   Lipsitz, Lewis A ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b RESEARCH AND TRAINING INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; FLUNISOLIDE; OXAZEPAM; PARACETAMOL; POTASSIUM; PREDNISONE; SALBUTAMOL; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TRAMADOL; TRIMETHOPRIM; WARFARIN;

ANTICHOLINERGIC EFFECT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DELIRIUM; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; GERIATRIC DISORDER; HUMAN; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; RADIOASSAY; SCORING SYSTEM; SENNA;

SENNA;

EID: 0032935345     PISSN: 10795006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gerona/54.1.M12     Document Type: Article

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