Geriatrician interventions on medication prescribing for frail older people in residential aged care facilities

Clinical Interventions in Aging

Volumn 10, Issue , 2015, Pages 1043-1051

  Poudel, Arjun ^a   Peel, Nancye M ^a   Mitchell, Charles A ^a   Gray, Leonard C ^a   Nissen, Lisa M ^a,b   Hubbard, Ruth E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Frail older; Geriatrician intervention; High risk medications; Residential aged care facilities

Indexed keywords

AGED; AUSTRALIA; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GERIATRICS; HOME FOR THE AGED; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICATION THERAPY MANAGEMENT; NURSING HOME; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POLYPHARMACY; PROCEDURES; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUSTRALIA; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GERIATRICS; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICATION THERAPY MANAGEMENT; NURSING HOMES; POLYPHARMACY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84934269231     PISSN: 11769092     EISSN: 11781998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/CIA.S84402     Document Type: Article

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