Inappropriate prescription in older patients: The STOPP/START criteria;Prescripción inapropiada de medicamentos en los pacientes mayores: los criterios STOPP/START

Revista Espanola de Geriatria y Gerontologia

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 273-279

  Delgado Silveira, Eva ^a   Muñoz García, María ^a   Montero Errasquin, Beatriz ^a   Sánchez Castellano, Carmen ^a   Gallagher, Paul F ^b   Cruz Jentoft, Alfonso J ^a  

^a HOSPITAL RAMÓN Y CAJAL   (Spain)

^b University College Cork and INFANT Centre   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Adverse drug reactions; Drug prescriptions; Drug use; Older adults

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CLOPIDOGREL; CODEINE PHOSPHATE; CORTICOSTEROID; DIGOXIN; DILTIAZEM; DIPHENOXYLATE; DIPYRIDAMOLE; DIURETIC AGENT; GLIBENCLAMIDE; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; HYPNOTIC SEDATIVE AGENT; IPRATROPIUM BROMIDE; LOPERAMIDE; METFORMIN; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PHENOTHIAZINE; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR; THEOPHYLLINE; THIAZIDE DIURETIC AGENT; UNINDEXED DRUG; VERAPAMIL; WARFARIN;

ARTICLE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DEPRESSION; DIARRHEA; ESOPHAGITIS; GASTROENTERITIS; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; MEDICATION ERROR; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; METHODOLOGY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PEPTIC ULCER; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCRIPTION; RELIABILITY; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCREENING; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 70349238729     PISSN: 0211139X     EISSN: 15781747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.regg.2009.03.017     Document Type: Article

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