Prevalence of inappropriate medication using Beers criteria in Japanese long-term care facilities

BMC Geriatrics

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Niwata, Satoko ^a   Yamada, Yukari ^a,b   Ikegami, Naoki ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; AMITRIPTYLINE; AMPHETAMINE; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; BARBITURIC ACID DERIVATIVE; BENZODIAZEPINE; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CIMETIDINE; DECONGESTIVE AGENT; DIGOXIN; DIPYRIDAMOLE; DISOPYRAMIDE; DOXAZOSIN; FERROUS SULFATE; INDOMETACIN; METHYLDOPA; METHYLPHENIDATE; MUSCLE RELAXANT AGENT; NIFEDIPINE; PENTAZOCINE; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT; SPASMOLYTIC AGENT; THEOPHYLLINE; THIORIDAZINE; TICLOPIDINE; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; CONSTIPATION; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICATION ERROR; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PATIENT; PREDICTION; PRESCRIPTION; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DRUG THERAPY; DRUG UTILIZATION; HOME FOR THE AGED; JAPAN; NURSING HOME; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DRUG THERAPY; DRUG UTILIZATION; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; JAPAN; MEDICATION ERRORS; NURSING HOMES;

EID: 33644512059     PISSN: 14712318     EISSN: 14712318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2318-6-1     Document Type: Article

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