Medication management: Evidence brief

Home Healthcare Nurse

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 379-386

  Feldman, Penny Hollander ^a   Totten, Annette M ^b   Foust, Janice ^b   Naik, Dhara ^b   Costello, Beth ^b   Kurtzman, Ellen ^b   Mcdonald, Margaret ^b  

^a Center for Home Care Policy and Research   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG THERAPY; DRUG TOXICITY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOME CARE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICATION ERROR; MEDICATION THERAPY MANAGEMENT; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REVIEW; STANDARD; STATISTICS; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; DRUG THERAPY; DRUG TOXICITY; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HOME CARE SERVICES; HOME HEALTH AIDES; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICATION ERRORS; MEDICATION THERAPY MANAGEMENT; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 69449097786     PISSN: 0884741X     EISSN: 15390713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.NHH.0000356831.11843.16     Document Type: Article

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