Inappropriate prescribing to the oldest old patients admitted to hospital: Prevalence, most frequently used medicines, and associated factors

BMC Geriatrics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  San José, Antonio ^a,h   Agustí, Antonia ^a   Vidal, Xavier ^a   Formiga, Francesc ^b,h   Gómez Hernández, Mercedes ^c,h   García, Juana ^d,h   López Soto, Alfonso ^e,h   Ramírez Duque, Nieves ^f,h   Torres, Olga H ^g,h   Barbé, José ^a,h  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL SAN JUAN DE DIOS DEL ALJARAFE   (Spain)

^d HOSPITAL JUAN RAMÓN JIMÉNEZ   (Spain)

^e HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

^f HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DEL ROCÍO   (Spain)

^g UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^h Multimorbidity and Elderly Patients Group of the Spanish Society of Internal Medicine   (Spain)

Author keywords

Benzodiazepines; Calcium and vitamin D supplements; Oldest old; Polypharmacy; Potentially inappropriate medicines; Potentially prescribing omissions

Indexed keywords

BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; BONE DENSITY CONSERVATION AGENT; CALCIUM DERIVATIVE; VITAMIN D;

ADVERSE EFFECTS; AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INAPPROPRIATE PRESCRIBING; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; POLYPHARMACY; PRESCRIPTION; PREVALENCE; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPAIN; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BENZODIAZEPINES; BONE DENSITY CONSERVATION AGENTS; CALCIUM COMPOUNDS; CHRONIC DISEASE; DRUG PRESCRIPTIONS; FEMALE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INAPPROPRIATE PRESCRIBING; MALE; POLYPHARMACY; PRACTICE PATTERNS, PHYSICIANS'; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPAIN; VITAMIN D;

EID: 84928011391     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12877-015-0038-8     Document Type: Article

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