Guideline-driven polypharmacy in elderly, multimorbid patients is basically flawed: There are almost no guidelines for these patients

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 376-377

  Wehling, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; LETTER; MORBIDITY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; POLYPHARMACY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SENESCENCE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; POLYPHARMACY; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC;

EID: 79951660403     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2011.03252.x     Document Type: Letter

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