Deprescribing in frail older people - Do doctors and pharmacists agree?

Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 438-449

  Page, Amy T ^a   Etherton Beer, Christopher D ^a,b   Clifford, Rhonda M ^a   Burrows, Sally ^a   Eames, Marnee ^a   Potter, Kathleen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b ROYAL PERTH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Decision support; Deprescribing; Polypharmacy; Prescribing

Indexed keywords

CONSENSUS; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEDICINE; PHARMACIST; AGED; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DEPRESCRIPTION; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; MALE; PHYSICIAN; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONSENSUS; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; DEPRESCRIPTIONS; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HUMANS; MALE; PHARMACISTS; PHYSICIANS;

EID: 84950991004     PISSN: 15517411     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sapharm.2015.08.011     Document Type: Article

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