Detection of inappropriate medication use in the elderly: Will the STOPP and START criteria become the new standards?;Detectie van ongeschikt medicatiegebruik bij ouderen Worden de STOPP- en START-criteri a de nie uwe st and aard ?

Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde

Volumn 156, Issue 40, 2012, Pages

  Vermeulen Windsant Van Den Tweel, Annemieke M A ^a   Verduijn, Monique M ^c   Derijks, H J ^a   Van Marum, Rob J ^b  

^a JEROEN BOSCH HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c DUTCH COLLEGE OF GENERAL PRACTITIONERS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HUMAN; MEDICATION ERROR; AGED; AGING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DRUG MISUSE; ELDERLY CARE; NETHERLANDS; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCRIPTION; REVIEW; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

DRUG;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; DRUG PRESCRIPTIONS; HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; MEDICATION ERRORS; NETHERLANDS; PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PRESCRIPTION DRUG MISUSE;

EID: 84871874255     PISSN: 00282162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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