Quality indicators for in-hospital pharmaceutical care of dutch elderly patients: Development and validation of an ACOVE-based quality indicator set

Drugs and Aging

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 295-304

  Wierenga, Peter C ^a   Klopotowska, Joanna E ^a   Smorenburg, Susanne M ^a   Van Kan, Hendrikus J ^b   Bijleveld, Yuma A ^a   Dijkgraaf, Marcel G ^a   De Rooij, Sophia E ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b GELRE HOSPITALS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Elderly; Hospitalisation; Patient care; Quality of care

Indexed keywords

AGENTS ACTING ON THE EYE; ANTIPAIN; ANXIOLYTIC AGENT; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITOR; CORTICOSTEROID; COUMARIN; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE;

ARTICLE; ASSESSING CARE OF VULNERABLE ELDERS QUALITY INDICATOR; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTENT VALIDITY; DELIRIUM; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENDOCARDITIS; FACE VALIDITY; FALLING; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GERIATRIC PATIENT; GOUT; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; INTERVIEW; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NETHERLANDS; OSTEOARTHRITIS; OSTEOPOROSIS; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PHARMACIST; PNEUMONIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; STROKE; VALIDATION PROCESS; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM;

AGED; GERIATRICS; HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; NETHERLANDS; PHARMACEUTICAL SERVICES; PHARMACY; PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 79953203920     PISSN: 1170229X     EISSN: 11791969     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/11587700-000000000-00000     Document Type: Article

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