Clinical, demographic and functional characteristics associated with pharmacotherapy for heart failure in older home care clients: A retrospective, population-level, cross-sectional study

Drugs and Aging

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 561-573

  Foebel, Andrea D ^a   Heckman, George A ^a,b   Hirdes, John P ^a,c   Tyas, Suzanne L ^a   Tjam, Erin Y ^a,d   McKelvie, Robert S ^b   Maxwell, Colleen J ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c HOMEWOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^d St Mary's General Hospital Kitchener   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Drug utilisation; Elderly; Heart failure; Prescribing

Indexed keywords

ACEBUTOLOL; ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; ATENOLOL; BENAZEPRIL; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BISOPROLOL; CANDESARTAN HEXETIL; CAPTOPRIL; CARVEDILOL; CILAZAPRIL; DIGOXIN; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; ENALAPRIL; EPROSARTAN; FOSINOPRIL; FUROSEMIDE; IRBESARTAN; LISINOPRIL; LOSARTAN; METOPROLOL; NADOLOL; PERINDOPRIL; PROPRANOLOL; QUINAPRIL; RAMIPRIL; SPIRONOLACTONE; TELMISARTAN; TRANDOLAPRIL; VALSARTAN;

AGED; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HEART FAILURE; HOME CARE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NURSING CARE; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 79959923258     PISSN: 1170229X     EISSN: 11791969     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/11592420-000000000-00000     Document Type: Article

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