Potentially inappropriate medications defined by STOPP criteria and the risk of adverse drug events in older hospitalized patients

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 171, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1013-1019

  Hamilton, Hilary ^a   Gallagher, Paul ^a   Ryan, Cristin ^b   Byrne, Stephen ^b   O'Mahony, Denis ^a  

^a Department of Medicine National University of Ireland Cork   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ALPRAZOLAM; AMIODARONE; AMITRIPTYLINE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CHLORDIAZEPOXIDE; CLORAZEPATE; DIAZEPAM; DIURETIC AGENT; DOXAZOSIN MESYLATE; DOXEPIN; FLURAZEPAM; GUANETHIDINE; HALAZEPAM; HYPNOTIC AGENT; IMIPRAMINE; LORAZEPAM; METHYLDOPA; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; NON PRESCRIPTION DRUG; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OXAZEPAM; QUAZEPAM; RESERPINE; TEMAZEPAM; TRIAZOLAM;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; AGE; AGED; AGED HOSPITAL PATIENT; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BRADYCARDIA; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMORBIDITY; CONSTIPATION; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG MONITORING; FALLING; FEMALE; GASTRITIS; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPONATREMIA; INCIDENTAL FINDING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICATION ERROR; MONOTHERAPY; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PEPTIC ULCER; POTENTIALLY INAPPROPRIATE MEDICATION; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCREENING; SCREENING TOOL OF OLDER PERSONS POTENTIALLY INAPPROPRIATE PRESCRIPTION; SEX; SIDE EFFECT; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADVERSE DRUG REACTION REPORTING SYSTEMS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMORBIDITY; DRUG TOXICITY; HUMANS; INAPPROPRIATE PRESCRIBING; INPATIENTS; IRELAND; MEDICATION ERRORS; PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS; POLYPHARMACY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK;

EID: 79959296825     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.215     Document Type: Article

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