Drug use in a geriatric long-term care setting: Comparison between newly admitted and institutionalised patients

Drugs and Aging

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 157-165

  Arinzon, Zeev ^a   Peisakh, Alexander ^b   Zuta, Aneta ^b   Berner, Yitshal N ^a,c  

^a MEIR MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b Leumit Research Institue   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGENTS ACTING ON THE EYE; ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANTIEMETIC AGENT; ANTIPYRETIC AGENT; ANXIOLYTIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; CARDIOVASCULAR AGENT; DERMATOLOGICAL AGENT; DIURETIC AGENT; GASTROINTESTINAL AGENT; HISTAMINE H2 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; HORMONE; HYPNOTIC AGENT; LAXATIVE; MINERAL; MULTIVITAMIN; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG USE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GERIATRIC CARE; HEALTH CENTER; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENESCENCE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALGESICS; ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENTS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DRUG UTILIZATION; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LONG-TERM CARE; MALE; POLYPHARMACY; PRESCRIPTIONS, DRUG; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM AGENTS;

EID: 33644969148     PISSN: 1170229X     EISSN: 1170229X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00002512-200623020-00005     Document Type: Article

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