Use of medication in elderly people don't institutionalized;Uso de medicamentos en adultos mayores no institucionalizados

Revista Peruana de Medicina Experimental y Salud Publica

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 643-647

  Regueiro, Martín ^a,b   Mendy, Nicolás ^a   Cañás, Martín ^a,c   Farina, Hugo Osvaldo ^a   Nagel, Pablo ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PLATA   (Argentina)

^b HOSPITAL DURAND   (Argentina)

^c FEMEBA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Drug prescriptions; Drug utilization; Elderly

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DRUG USE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INAPPROPRIATE PRESCRIBING; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; MALE; POLYPHARMACY;

EID: 84857076335     PISSN: 17264634     EISSN: 17264642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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