Inappropriate prescribing in older residents of Australian care homes

Journal of Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 33-44

  Stafford, A C ^a   Alswayan, M S ^a   Tenni, P C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Beers criteria; inappropriate prescribing; McLeod criteria; older patients

Indexed keywords

ALPRAZOLAM; AMIODARONE; AMITRIPTYLINE; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTIPYRETIC AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; CARVEDILOL; CELECOXIB; DIAZEPAM; DILTIAZEM; DIPYRIDAMOLE; ESTRADIOL; MELOXICAM; METOPROLOL; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OMEPRAZOLE; OXAZEPAM; OXYBUTYNIN; PREDNISOLONE; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT; TEMAZEPAM;

AGED; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LOW DRUG DOSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICATION ERROR; NURSING HOME; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PRESCRIPTION; PREVALENCE; RESIDENTIAL HOME; SEX DIFFERENCE; STROKE; URINE INCONTINENCE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; DRUG UTILIZATION REVIEW; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; INAPPROPRIATE PRESCRIBING; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; PHARMACISTS; POLYPHARMACY; PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS; TASMANIA;

EID: 78650955799     PISSN: 02694727     EISSN: 13652710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2710.2009.01151.x     Document Type: Article

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