Application of the new STOPP-START criteria of inappropriate medication prescription in geriatrics in an institutional care setting;Original: Aplicación de los nuevos criterios de prescripción inadecuada STOPP-START a pacientes geriátricos institucionalizados

Farmaceuticos de Atencion Primaria

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 2-7

  Sotoca Momblona, J M ^a,b   Anglada Martinez H ^a   Molas Ferrer, G ^a   Fontanals Martinez S ^a,c   Rovira Illamola, M ^a,c   Sebastian Montal L ^b,c  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

^b Centro de Atención Primaria Les Corts   (Spain)

^c Médico de Familia Del Consorci d'Atencio Primria de Salut de l'Eixample Casanova   (Spain)

Author keywords

Elderly; Inappropriate prescription; Omission of prescription; Primary care

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HUMAN; INAPPROPRIATE PRESCRIBING; INSTITUTIONAL CARE; INTERVENTION STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NURSING HOME; PHARMACIST; PHYSICIAN; PRESCRIPTION; PREVALENCE; QUASI EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; SCREENING TOOL OF OLDER PERSON PRESCRIPTION; SCREENING TOOL TO ALERT DOCTORS TO RIGHT TREATMENT;

EID: 84862113336     PISSN: 21723761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2172-3761(11)70012-7     Document Type: Article

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