Potentially inappropriate prescribing in patients on admission and discharge from an older peoples' unit of an acute uk hospital

Drugs and Aging

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 729-737

  Onatade, Raliat ^a,b   Auyeung, Vivian ^b,c   Scutt, Greg ^b,c   Fernando, Jasmine ^a,b  

^a KING S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; CARDIOVASCULAR AGENT; LOOP DIURETIC AGENT; LOPERAMIDE; MUSCARINIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT; VASODILATOR AGENT;

AGED; ANKLE EDEMA; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; DIARRHEA; DRUG USE; FEMALE; GERIATRICS; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INAPPROPRIATE PRESCRIBING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED KINGDOM;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GREAT BRITAIN; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INAPPROPRIATE PRESCRIBING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ADMISSION; PATIENT DISCHARGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84883216743     PISSN: 1170229X     EISSN: 11791969     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40266-013-0097-5     Document Type: Article

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