Doctors' perspectives on the barriers to appropriate prescribing in older hospitalized patients: A qualitative study

British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology

Volumn 79, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 860-869

  Cullinan, Shane ^a   Fleming, Aoife ^a   O'Mahony, Denis ^b   Ryan, Cristin ^c   O'Sullivan, David ^a   Gallagher, Paul ^c   Byrne, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b University College Cork and INFANT Centre   (Ireland)

^c QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

inappropriate; older patients; potentially; prescribing; qualitative

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CONTENT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITAL PHYSICIAN; HUMAN; INAPPROPRIATE PRESCRIBING; KNOWLEDGE; MEMORY; PERCEPTION; POTENTIALLY INAPPROPRIATE PRESCRIBING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SKILL; SOCIAL ASPECT; AGED; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DRUG-RELATED SIDE EFFECTS AND ADVERSE REACTIONS; EDUCATION; HOSPITALIZATION; IRELAND; PHARMACOLOGY; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRESCRIPTION; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DRUG PRESCRIPTIONS; DRUG-RELATED SIDE EFFECTS AND ADVERSE REACTIONS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INAPPROPRIATE PRESCRIBING; IRELAND; PHARMACOLOGY; PHYSICIAN'S ROLE;

EID: 84928316670     PISSN: 03065251     EISSN: 13652125     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/bcp.12555     Document Type: Article

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