Aging: Is your patient taking too many pills?

Journal of Family Practice

Volumn 61, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Weiss, Barry D ^a,b   Lee, Jeannie K ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPRAZOLAM; DIGOXIN; DIPHENHYDRAMINE; DONEPEZIL; FUROSEMIDE; GUAIFENESIN; INSULIN GLARGINE; LEVOTHYROXINE; METFORMIN; METOPROLOL; NAPROXEN; OMEPRAZOLE; SALBUTAMOL; SIMVASTATIN; TOLTERODINE; ZOLPIDEM;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; DEMENTIA; ELECTRONIC PRESCRIBING; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; INAPPROPRIATE PRESCRIBING; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICATION THERAPY MANAGEMENT; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PATIENT SAFETY; POLYPHARMACY; URGE INCONTINENCE; URINE INCONTINENCE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; DRUG THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; FAMILY PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; INAPPROPRIATE PRESCRIBING; MEDICATION RECONCILIATION; POLYPHARMACY; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 84880304615     PISSN: 00943509     EISSN: 15337294     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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