Potentially inappropriate use of psychotropic medications in hospitalized elderly patients in France: Cross-sectional analysis of the prospective, multicentre SAFEs cohort

Drugs and Aging

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 933-946

  Prudent, Max ^a,b   Dramé, Moustapha ^a,c   Jolly, Damien ^a,c   Trenque, Thierry ^c   Parjoie, Renaud ^b   Mahmoudi, Rachid ^a,c   Lang, Pierre Olivier ^a,d   Somme, Dominique ^e   Boyer, François ^a,f   Lanièce, Isabelle ^g   Gauvain, Jean Bernard ^h   Blanchard, François ^a,c   Novella, Jean Luc ^a,c,i  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE REIMS CHAMPAGNE ARDENNE   (France)

^b Caisse Nationale d'Assurance Maladie des Travailleurs Salaries   (France)

^c HÔPITAL MAISON BLANCHE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

^e HÔPITAL EUROPÉEN GEORGES POMPIDOU   (France)

^f REIMS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^g GRENOBLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^h Porte Madeleine Hospital   (France)

ⁱ Reims Teaching Hospital   (France)

Author keywords

Drug utilisation; Elderly; Prescribing

Indexed keywords

ALPRAZOLAM; AMITRIPTYLINE; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANXIOLYTIC AGENT; BROMAZEPAM; CITALOPRAM; CLOMIPRAMINE; CLORAZEPATE DIPOTASSIUM; CYAMEMAZINE; DIAZEPAM; ETHYL LOFLAZEPATE; FLUNITRAZEPAM; FLUOXETINE; HALOPERIDOL; HYDROXYZINE; LORAZEPAM; MEPROBAMATE; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; NITRAZEPAM; NORDAZEPAM; OXAZEPAM; PRAZEPAM; RISPERIDONE; SULPIRIDE; THIORIDAZINE; TIAPRIDE; UNINDEXED DRUG; ZOLPIDEM; ZOPICLONE;

AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; DELIRIUM; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; FALLING; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLYPHARMACY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENTIAL HOME; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIDE EFFECT;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; DELIRIUM; DEMENTIA; DRUG INTERACTIONS; DRUG UTILIZATION; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; FRANCE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PRESCRIPTIONS; PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 54549107918     PISSN: 1170229X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/0002512-200825110-00004     Document Type: Article

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