Identification of intervention strategies to reduce preventable drug-related morbidity in older adults

Geriatrics Today: Journal of the Canadian Geriatrics Society

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 76-80

  Flanagan, Priti S ^a   Mackinnon, Neil J ^a   Hanlon, Neil ^a   Robertson, Heather ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Drug monitoring; Elderly; Geriatric pharmacotherapy; Preventable drug related morbidity

Indexed keywords

DRUG;

ARTICLE; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; PATIENT MONITORING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE;

EID: 0036271505     PISSN: 14963892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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