Medication use among older Australian veterans and war widows

Internal Medicine Journal

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 388-391

  Byles, Julie E ^a,d   Heinze, R ^c   Nair, B ^a,b   Parkinson, L ^a  

^a JOHN HUNTER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aged; Australia; Drug use; Prescriptions; Veterans

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ALPRAZOLAM; AMANTADINE; AMILORIDE; AMINOPHYLLINE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; ANTIPARKINSON AGENT; BENZATROPINE; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; BRONCHODILATING AGENT; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIAZEPAM; DIURETIC AGENT; FLUNITRAZEPAM; HYDROCHLOROTHIAZIDE; HYPNOTIC AGENT; METHYLDOPA; NITRAZEPAM; OXAZEPAM; PROPANTHELINE BROMIDE; SPASMOLYTIC AGENT; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TEMAZEPAM; THEOPHYLLINE; TRIAZOLAM; TRIHEXYPHENIDYL; TRIMETHOPRIM; UNINDEXED DRUG; WARFARIN;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BLOOD DYSCRASIA; CONFUSION; CONSTIPATION; DEHYDRATION; DEPRESSION; DROWSINESS; DRUG USE; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; FRACTURE; GAIT DISORDER; HALLUCINATION; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPERSENSITIVITY; HYPERURICEMIA; INCONTINENCE; INSOMNIA; MEMORY DISORDER; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NAUSEA; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PERIPHERAL EDEMA; POLYPHARMACY; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTLESSNESS; SOLDIER; STEVENS JOHNSON SYNDROME; URINE RETENTION; VASCULITIS; VOMITING; WAR; WIDOW;

EID: 0041833494     PISSN: 14440903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1445-5994.2003.00399.x     Document Type: Article

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