Agreement between drugs-to-avoid criteria and expert assessments of problematic prescribing - Invited commentary

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 169, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 1332-1334

  Budnitz, Daniel S ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; DIGOXIN; INSULIN; WARFARIN;

AGED; DRUG COST; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MEDICARE; NOTE; NURSING HOME PATIENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OUTPATIENT; PHARMACIST; PHYSICIAN; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

AGED; DRUG UTILIZATION REVIEW; HUMANS; NONPRESCRIPTION DRUGS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PRESCRIPTION DRUGS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 67749093106     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2009.180     Document Type: Note

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