Reducing drugs in older adults is more

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 171, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 868-869

  Gnjidic, Danijela ^a,b   Le Couteur, David G ^b,c   Abernethy, Darrell R ^d   Hilmer, Sarah N ^a,b  

^a ROYAL NORTH SHORE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases   (Australia)

^d CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRUG;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HUMAN; POLYPHARMACY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY;

EID: 79955775913     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.207     Document Type: Article

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