Exposure to potentially harmful drug-disease interactions in older community-dwelling veterans based on the Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set quality measure: Who is at risk?

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 59, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1673-1678

  Pugh, Mary Jo V ^a,b   Starner, Catherine I ^c   Amuan, Megan E ^d   Berlowitz, Dan R ^d,e   Horton, Monica ^a,b   Marcum, Zachary A ^f   Hanlon, Joseph T ^d,f,g,h,i  

^a SOUTH TEXAS VETERANS HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^c Prime Therapeutics   (United States)

^d VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aged; Drug disease interaction; HEDIS measures; Pharmacoepidemiology; Potentially inappropriate prescribing

Indexed keywords

ATYPICAL ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENT; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMENTIA; DRUG EXPOSURE; FALLING; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH STATUS; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTPATIENT CARE; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; VETERAN;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMBULATORY CARE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INAPPROPRIATE PRESCRIBING; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS; VETERANS;

EID: 81155159659     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2011.03524.x     Document Type: Article

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