Medication use and potentially inappropriate medications in those with limited prognosis living in residential aged care

Australasian journal on ageing

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2016, Pages E18-E24

  Heppenstall, Claire Patricia ^a   Broad, Joanna B ^a   Boyd, Michal ^a   Hikaka, Joanna ^b   Zhang, Xian ^a   Kennedy, Julia ^a   Connolly, Martin J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b New Zealand   (New Zealand)

^c Aged Residential Care Inpatient Pharmacy Waitemata District Health Board Auckland New Zealand ^*

Author keywords

frail elderly; homes for the aged; inappropriate prescribing; palliative care; polypharmacy

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR AGENT; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT;

AGE; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DRUG UTILIZATION REVIEW; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HOME FOR THE AGED; HUMAN; INAPPROPRIATE PRESCRIBING; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; NEW ZEALAND; NURSING HOME; POLYPHARMACY; POTENTIALLY INAPPROPRIATE MEDICATION; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; TIME FACTOR; VERY ELDERLY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIOVASCULAR AGENTS; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DRUG UTILIZATION REVIEW; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; INAPPROPRIATE PRESCRIBING; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; NEW ZEALAND; NURSING HOMES; POLYPHARMACY; POTENTIALLY INAPPROPRIATE MEDICATION LIST; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICES; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 85027941937     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17416612     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ajag.12220     Document Type: Article

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