Injury in an elderly population before and after initiating a skeletal muscle relaxant;Lesiones en una población de ancianos antes y después de comenzar un relajante músculo-esqueletal

Annals of Pharmacotherapy

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 485-491

  Billups, Sarah J ^a   Delate, Thomas ^a   Hoover, Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Adverse drug event; Elderly; Falls; HEDIS; Injury; National Committee for Quality Assurance; Skeletal muscle relaxants

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANTIGLAUCOMA AGENT; BACLOFEN; CARISOPRODOL; CYCLOBENZAPRINE; HYPNOTIC AGENT; METHOCARBAMOL; MUSCLE RELAXANT AGENT; NARCOTIC AGENT; SELEGILINE;

AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTUSION; EMERGENCY CARE; FALLING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE; GERIATRIC DISORDER; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INJURY; LACERATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; COLORADO; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; NEUROMUSCULAR AGENTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 79955613303     PISSN: 10600280     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1345/aph.1P628     Document Type: Article

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