Potentially inappropriate medications in the elderly: The PRISCUS list;Potenziell inadäquate medikation für ältere menschen: Die PRISCUS-liste

Deutsches Arzteblatt

Volumn 107, Issue 31-32, 2010, Pages 543-551

  Holt, Stefanie ^a   Schmiedl, Sven ^a,b   Thürmann, Petra A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

^b HELIOS KLINIKUM WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACEMETACIN; ACETYLDIGOXIN; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANTIEMETIC AGENT; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; CHLORPHENIRAMINE; CLEMASTINE; DIGOXIN; ERGOTAMINE DERIVATIVE; FLECAINIDE; HYDROXYZINE; HYPNOTIC AGENT; INDOMETACIN; KETOPROFEN; MELOXICAM; METILDIGOXIN; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; NITROFURANTOIN; OXYBUTYNIN; PETHIDINE; PHENYLBUTAZONE; PIROXICAM; QUINIDINE; SEDATIVE AGENT; SOTALOL; TOLTERODINE; TRIPROLIDINE; UNINDEXED DRUG; VASODILATOR AGENT;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DELPHI STUDY; GERIATRICS; GERMANY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MEDICAL EXPERT; MULTICENTER STUDY; POLYPHARMACY; POTENTIALLY INAPPROPRIATE MEDICATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; THERAPEUTIC ERROR;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; GERIATRICS; GERMANY; HUMANS; INAPPROPRIATE PRESCRIBING; PRESCRIPTIONS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE;

EID: 78049308044     PISSN: 00121207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3238/arztebl.2010.0543     Document Type: Article

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