Community-dwelling older people's attitudes towards deprescribing in Canada

Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 864-870

  Sirois, Caroline ^a,b,c   Ouellet, Nicole ^a   Reeve, Emily ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

^b Université Laval   (Canada)

^c INSTITUT NATIONAL DE SANTÉ PUBLIQUE DU QUÉBEC   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^e DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Deprescribing; Elderly; Perceptions; Polypharmacy

Indexed keywords

AGED; CANADA; CANADIAN; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIKERT SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERCEPTION; POLYPHARMACY; QUESTIONNAIRE; ADVERSE DRUG REACTION; AGE; AGING; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEPRESCRIPTION; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; INDEPENDENT LIVING; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGY; QUEBEC; VERY ELDERLY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; DEPRESCRIPTIONS; DRUG-RELATED SIDE EFFECTS AND ADVERSE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INDEPENDENT LIVING; MALE; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PERCEPTION; POLYPHARMACY; QUEBEC;

EID: 84994726252     PISSN: 15517411     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sapharm.2016.08.006     Document Type: Article

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