Caution when prescribing cholinesterase inhibitors

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 805-806

  Praisoody, Apputhury ^a  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITOR;

ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; BRADYCARDIA; BRONCHOSPASM; CHOLINERGIC ACTIVITY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; COUGHING; DEMENTIA; DIARRHEA; DRUG EFFICACY; ELDERLY CARE; EMPHYSEMA; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; HYPERSALIVATION; LETTER; NAUSEA; PATIENT CARE; PRESCRIPTION; SYNCOPE; URINE INCONTINENCE; VOMITING;

AGED; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITORS; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DEMENTIA; DRUG PRESCRIPTIONS; HUMANS; MEDICATION ERRORS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC;

EID: 84859817794     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2011.03872.x     Document Type: Letter

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