Comparison of prescription drug use between community-dwelling and institutionalized elderly in Sweden

Drugs and Aging

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 751-758

  Johnell, Kristina ^a,b   Fastbom, Johan ^a,b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM GERONTOLOGY RESEARCH CENTER   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANGIOTENSIN II ANTAGONIST; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENT; ANTITHYROID AGENT; ANTIULCER AGENT; CALCIUM; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; CITALOPRAM; CYANOCOBALAMIN; ESTROGEN; FOLIC ACID; FUROSEMIDE; HYPNOTIC AGENT; LAXATIVE; LOOP DIURETIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OMEPRAZOLE; OPIATE; PARACETAMOL; PRESCRIPTION DRUG; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT; SEDATIVE AGENT; SIMVASTATIN; THIAZIDE DIURETIC AGENT; UNINDEXED DRUG; WARFARIN; ZOPICLONE;

AGED; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DRUG USE; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONAL CARE; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; SWEDEN;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; DRUG PRESCRIPTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SWEDEN;

EID: 84874604406     PISSN: 1170229X     EISSN: 11791969     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40266-012-0002-7     Document Type: Article

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