Inappropriate medication prescriptions in elderly adults surviving an intensive care unit hospitalization

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 61, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1128-1134

  Morandi, Alessandro ^a,b,c   Vasilevskis, Eduard ^c,d,e   Pandharipande, Pratik P ^c,e   Girard, Timothy D ^c,e   Solberg, Laurence M ^c,d,e   Neal, Erin B ^f   Koestner, Tyler ^g   Torres, Renee E ^g   Thompson, Jennifer L ^g   Shintani, Ayumi K ^g   Han, Jin H ^h   Schnelle, John F ^c   Fick, Donna M ^a,d   Ely, E Wesley ^c,e   Kripalani, Sunil ^c,d  

^a Aged Care Unit Hospital Ancelle   (Italy)

^b GERIATRIC RESEARCH GROUP   (Italy)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^h PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

actually inappropriate medications; ICU; older; polypharmacy; potentially inappropriate medications; risk factors

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ATYPICAL ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; HYPNOTIC AGENT; MUSCLE RELAXANT AGENT; OPIATE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INAPPROPRIATE PRESCRIBING; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RISK FACTOR; STANDING;

ACTUALLY INAPPROPRIATE MEDICATIONS; ICU; OLDER; POLYPHARMACY; POTENTIALLY INAPPROPRIATE MEDICATIONS; RISK FACTORS;

AGED; APACHE; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INAPPROPRIATE PRESCRIBING; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MEDICATION ERRORS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT DISCHARGE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POLYPHARMACY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVORS;

EID: 84880292755     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jgs.12329     Document Type: Article

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