Inappropriate medication use in elderly Lebanese outpatients: Prevalence and risk factors

Drugs and Aging

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 743-752

  Saab, Yolande B ^a   Hachem, Alya ^a   Sinno, Soha ^a   El Moalem, Habib ^a  

^a LEBANESE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; ANALGESIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM DERIVATIVE; CAPTOPRIL; CORTICOSTEROID; DEXTROPROPOXYPHENE; DIPYRIDAMOLE; FUROSEMIDE; METFORMIN; NON PRESCRIPTION DRUG; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RANITIDINE; ROSIGLITAZONE; SIMVASTATIN; VALSARTAN;

AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DRUG POTENTIATION; DRUG USE; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPERTENSION; LEBANON; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICATION ERROR; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OUTPATIENT; PHARMACY; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIDE EFFECT; TREATMENT DURATION;

AGED; DRUG UTILIZATION; FEMALE; GERIATRICS; HUMANS; LEBANON; MALE; MEDICATION ERRORS; PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 33749565971     PISSN: 1170229X     EISSN: 1170229X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00002512-200623090-00004     Document Type: Article

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