Patient-level medication regimen complexity in older adults with depression

Clinical Therapeutics

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1538-1546.e1

  Linnebur, Sunny A ^a   Vande Griend, Joseph P ^a   Metz, Kelli R ^a   Hosokawa, Patrick W ^b   Hirsch, Jan D ^c,d   Libby, Anne M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^d VA SAN DIEGO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Aged; Depression; Geriatrics; Medication adherence; Medication regimen complexity; MRCI

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; NON PRESCRIPTION DRUG;

AGED; ARTICLE; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONSTIPATION; CREAM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG CAPSULE; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HUMAN; INDIGESTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MEDICATION COMPLIANCE; MEDICATION THERAPY MANAGEMENT; PAIN; POLYPHARMACY; PRESCRIPTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TABLET; VERY ELDERLY; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; SELF CARE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; DEPRESSION; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICATION ADHERENCE; POLYPHARMACY; SELF CARE;

EID: 84911118377     PISSN: 01492918     EISSN: 1879114X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinthera.2014.10.004     Document Type: Article

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