Impact of hospitalization on blood pressure control in Italy: Results from the Italian Group of Pharmacoepidemiology in the Elderly (GIFA)

Pharmacotherapy

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 240-247

  Onder, Graziano ^a,b   Gambassi, Giovanni ^b,c   Sgadari, Antonio ^b   Williamson, Jeff D ^a   Cesari, Matteo ^b   Landi, Francesco ^b   Bernabei, Roberto ^b   Pahor, Marco ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST BAPTIST HEALTH   (United States)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DRUG UTILIZATION; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; ITALY; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHARMACOEPIDEMIOLOGY; PRESCRIPTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; ITALY; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 12244279579     PISSN: 02770008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1592/phco.23.2.240.32087     Document Type: Article

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