Potentially inappropriate prescribing in older primary care patients

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Kovačević, Sandra Vezmar ^a   Simišić, Mika ^b   Rudinski, Svetlana Stojkov ^b   Ćulafić, Milica ^a   Vučićević, Katarina ^a   Prostran, Milica ^a   Miljković, Branislava ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b Pharmacy Subotica ^*  (Serbia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; THEOPHYLLINE;

AGE; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG USE; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INAPPROPRIATE PRESCRIBING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OSTEOPOROSIS; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; POTENTIALLY INAPPROPRIATE MEDICINE; POTENTIALLY PRESCRIPTION OMISSION; PRESCRIPTION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DRUG PRESCRIPTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INAPPROPRIATE PRESCRIBING; MALE; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

EID: 84899734097     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0095536     Document Type: Article

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