'Potentially inappropriate or specifically appropriate?' Qualitative evaluation of general practitioners views on prescribing, polypharmacy and potentially inappropriate prescribing in older people

BMC Family Practice

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 1-9

  Clyne, Barbara ^a   Cooper, Janine A ^a,b   Hughes, Carmel M ^b   Fahey, Tom ^a   Smith, Susan M ^a  

^a ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Older patients; Polypharmacy; Potentially inappropriate prescribing (PIP); Primary care; Qualitative analysis

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; INAPPROPRIATE PRESCRIBING; IRELAND; MALE; POLYPHARMACY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SECONDARY HEALTH CARE; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; THEMATIC ANALYSIS; AGED; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMORBIDITY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTERVIEW; PATERNALISM; PATIENT CARE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC);

AGED; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; COMMUNICATION; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONERS; HUMANS; INAPPROPRIATE PRESCRIBING; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; IRELAND; MALE; PATERNALISM; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; POLYPHARMACY; PRACTICE PATTERNS, PHYSICIANS'; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROFESSIONAL AUTONOMY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84992062668     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12875-016-0507-y     Document Type: Article

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