Keep your older patients out of medication trouble

Nursing

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 44-47

  Shepler, Sherrill A ^a   Grogan, Tracy A ^a   Pater, Karen Steinmetz ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NON PRESCRIPTION DRUG;

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG INTERACTION; DRUG THERAPY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GERIATRIC NURSING; HUMAN; INTESTINE ABSORPTION; METABOLIC CLEARANCE RATE; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSING; NURSING ASSESSMENT; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT EDUCATION; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYPHARMACY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF MEDICATION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

AGED; AGING; DRUG INTERACTIONS; DRUG THERAPY; DRUGS, NON-PRESCRIPTION; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GERIATRIC NURSING; HUMANS; INTESTINAL ABSORPTION; METABOLIC CLEARANCE RATE; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSING ASSESSMENT; PATIENT EDUCATION; POLYPHARMACY; SELF MEDICATION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 33748322078     PISSN: 03604039     EISSN: 15388689     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00152193-200609000-00033     Document Type: Review

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