Potentially Inappropriate Prescribing and Vulnerability and Hospitalization in Older Community-Dwelling Patients

Annals of Pharmacotherapy

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1546-1554

  Cahir, Caitriona ^a   Moriarty, Frank ^b   Teljeur, Conor ^c   Fahey, Tom ^b   Bennett, Kathleen ^a  

^a ST JAMES S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^b ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAND   (Ireland)

^c HEALTH INFORMATION AND QUALITY AUTHORITY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Beers 2012 criteria; functional decline; health care use; older populations; potentially inappropriate prescribing; STOPP; vulnerability

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INAPPROPRIATE PRESCRIBING; IRELAND; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; POTENTIALLY INAPPROPRIATE PRESCRIBING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; ADVERSE DRUG REACTION; COMORBIDITY; ODDS RATIO; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RISK; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; DRUG-RELATED SIDE EFFECTS AND ADVERSE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INAPPROPRIATE PRESCRIBING; IRELAND; MALE; ODDS RATIO; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK;

EID: 84921447639     PISSN: 10600280     EISSN: 15426270     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1060028014552821     Document Type: Article

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