Magnitude of potentially inappropriate prescribing in Germany among older patients with generalized anxiety disorder

BMC Geriatrics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Berger, Ariel ^a   Mychaskiw, Marko ^b   Dukes, Ellen ^b   Edelsberg, John ^a   Oster, Gerry ^a  

^a POLICY ANALYSIS INC PAI   (United States)

^b PFIZER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPRAZOLAM; AMITRIPTYLINE; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; BROMAZEPAM; BUSPIRONE; CHLORDIAZEPOXIDE; CLONAZEPAM; CLORAZEPATE; DIAZEPAM; DIBENZEPIN; DOXEPIN; FLUNITRAZEPAM; FLURAZEPAM; HALAZEPAM; HYDROXYZINE; IMIPRAMINE; LORAZEPAM; MEDAZEPAM; NITRAZEPAM; NORDAZEPAM; OXAZEPAM; PREGABALIN; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; TEMAZEPAM; TRIAZOLAM; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; TRIFLUOPERAZINE; UNINDEXED DRUG; VENLAFAXINE; ZOLPIDEM;

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG RELEASE; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; GERMANY; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRESCRIPTION; TREATMENT DURATION; AGE; ANXIETY DISORDER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FACTUAL DATABASE; GENERAL PRACTICE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MEDICATION ERROR; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICS;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANXIETY DISORDERS; BENZODIAZEPINES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DRUG PRESCRIPTIONS; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MEDICATION ERRORS;

EID: 68949216538     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2318-9-31     Document Type: Article

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