Potentially inappropriate medications and adverse drug reactions in the elderly: A study in a PharmacoVigilance database

European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology

Volumn 70, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1123-1127

  Montastruc, François ^a   Duguet, Cannelle ^a   Rousseau, Vanessa ^a   Bagheri, Haleh ^a   Montastruc, Jean Louis ^a  

^a TOULOUSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Adverse drug reactions; Drugs; Neuropsychotropics

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; DIGOXIN; PERIPHERAL VASODILATING AGENT;

ADVERSE DRUG REACTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; DRUG CLASSIFICATION; DRUG SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INAPPROPRIATE PRESCRIBING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; DRUG-RELATED SIDE EFFECTS AND ADVERSE REACTIONS; FACTUAL DATABASE; FRANCE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY;

ADVERSE DRUG REACTION REPORTING SYSTEMS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DRUG-RELATED SIDE EFFECTS AND ADVERSE REACTIONS; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMANS; INAPPROPRIATE PRESCRIBING; MALE; PHARMACOVIGILANCE;

EID: 84906075665     PISSN: 00316970     EISSN: 14321041     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00228-014-1707-9     Document Type: Article

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