Licit prescription drug use in a Swedish population according to age, gender and socioeconomic status after adjusting for level of multi-morbidity

BMC Public Health

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Thorell, Kristine ^a,b   Skoog, Jessica ^b   Zielinski, Andrzej ^a,b   Borgquist, Lars ^c   Halling, Anders ^a,b,d  

^a Blekinge Centre of Competence   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Age; Case mix; Gender; Licit prescription drug use; Multi morbidity; Primary health care; Sweden

Indexed keywords

PRESCRIPTION DRUG;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL CLASS; SWEDEN;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCRIPTION DRUGS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL CLASS; SWEDEN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84864375437     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-12-575     Document Type: Article

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