Association between acute geriatric syndromes and medication-related hospital admissions

Drugs and Aging

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 691-699

  Wierenga, Peter C ^a   Buurman, Bianca M ^b   Parlevliet, Juliette L ^b   Van Munster, Barbara C ^b   Smorenburg, Susanne M ^b   Inouye, Sharon K ^c   De Rooij, Sophia E J A ^b  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ATYPICAL ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENT; DIURETIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DELIRIUM; FALL RISK; FALLING; FEMALE; GERIATRIC DISORDER; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIDE EFFECT;

EID: 84864146622     PISSN: 1170229X     EISSN: 11791969     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/11632510-000000000-00000     Document Type: Article

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