Potentially inappropriate medications in community-dwelling older adults

Research in Gerontological Nursing

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 178-192

  Shade, Marcia Y ^a   Berger, Ann M ^b   Chaperon, Claudia ^c  

^a College of Nursing ^*  (United States)

^b Dorothy Hodges Olson Endowed   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL TRIAL; DATA BASE; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; NURSE; PHARMACIST; PHYSICIAN; POTENTIALLY INAPPROPRIATE MEDICATION; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; SCIENTIST; AGED; FEMALE; HOME FOR THE AGED; INAPPROPRIATE PRESCRIBING; MALE; MEDICATION ERROR; NURSING HOME; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; STATISTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; INAPPROPRIATE PRESCRIBING; MALE; MEDICATION ERRORS; NURSING HOMES; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84907668174     PISSN: 19404921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/19404921-20140210-01     Document Type: Article

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