Preventing potentially inappropriate medication use in hospitalized older patients with a computerized provider order entry warning system

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 170, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 1331-1336

  Mattison, Melissa L P ^a   Afonso, Kevin A ^a   Ngo, Long H ^a   Mukamal, Kenneth J ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; AMITRIPTYLINE; CHLORDIAZEPOXIDE; CLONIDINE; CLORAZEPATE DIPOTASSIUM; CYCLOBENZAPRINE; DEXTROPROPOXYPHENE; DIAZEPAM; DIGOXIN; DIPHENHYDRAMINE; DISOPYRAMIDE PHOSPHATE; FERROUS SULFATE; FLUOXETINE; HYDROXYZINE; INDOMETACIN; KETOROLAC TROMETAMOL; LORAZEPAM; NAPROXEN; OXYBUTYNIN; PIROXICAM; THIORIDAZINE;

AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SYSTEM; DRUG INFORMATION; DRUG USE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERNET; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BOSTON; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DRUG PRESCRIPTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; MALE; MEDICAL ORDER ENTRY SYSTEMS; MEDICATION ERRORS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 77955461048     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2010.244     Document Type: Article

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