Advanced Age and Medication Prescription: More Years, Less Medications? A Nationwide Report From the Italian Medicines Agency

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 168-172

  Onder, Graziano ^a   Marengoni, Alessandra ^b   Russo, Pierluigi ^c   Degli Esposti, Luca ^d   Fini, Massimo ^e   Monaco, Alessandro ^c   Bonassi, Stefano ^e   Palmer, Katie ^c   Marrocco, Walter ^c   Pozzi, Giuseppe ^f   Sangiorgi, Diego ^d   Buda, Stefano ^d   Marchionni, Niccolò ^g   Mammarella, Federica ^a,c   Bernabei, Roberto ^a   Pani, Luca ^c   Pecorelli, Sergio ^c  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^c ITALIAN MEDICINES AGENCY   (Italy)

^d Economics and Outcomes Research   (Italy)

^e IRCCS SAN RAFFAELE PISANA   (Italy)

^f Court of Justice for the Right to Health ^*  (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

End of life; Polypharmacy; Prescribing

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID DERIVATIVE; ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; ANGIOTENSIN II ANTAGONIST; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; DIHYDROPYRIDINE DERIVATIVE; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; GLUCOCORTICOID; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; MACROLIDE; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PROPIONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; SULFONAMIDE; VITAMIN D DERIVATIVE;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRESCRIPTION; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; VERY ELDERLY; AGE DISTRIBUTION; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; ITALY; MALE; POLYPHARMACY; TERMINAL CARE;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DRUG PRESCRIPTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; POLYPHARMACY; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 84959144264     PISSN: 15258610     EISSN: 15389375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamda.2015.08.009     Document Type: Article

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