ELDERLYCoronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19)complicates clinical management in elderly population.There is an additional need to properly treat and monitor elderly COVID-19 patients.This paper discusses the inappropriate medication prescribing in the elderly and suggests an updated valid assessment tool ...
Furthermore, office-based physicians did not prescribe cyclandelate, pentobarbital, or phenylbutazone for the elderly. CONCLUSIONS: The prescribing of inappropriate medications by office-based physicians raises concerns regarding the quality of care for the elderly in ambulatory settings. The crux of ...
Potentially inappropriate prescribing for elderly outpatients in Germany: a retrospective claims data analysis To quantify the frequency of potentially inappropriate medication (PIM) prescribing for outpatients aged 65 years and older using claims data of a German s... L Goltz,GA Kullak-Ublick,W Kirch...
BACKGROUND: Inappropriate medication use in elderly patients has been linked to a large share of adverse drug reactions and to excess health care utilization. METHODS: Trends in the prevalence of potentially inappropriate drug prescribing at ambulatory care visits by elderly persons from 1995 to 2000...
In addition, further research is needed to examine the role of physician prescribing patterns and patient preferences regarding use of asthma medications among older women. Accepted for publication January 17, 2002. This study was supported by grants HL-07427, PE-11001, HL-63841, HL-03533, and ...
These include suboptimal monitoring of drugs, poor medication management in patients' homes, under-prescribing and poor communication between health professionals. This is a review of the Australian literature on problems with medication use in the elderly, with guidelines for improving the quality of ...
Improving prescribing for older patients - 'Yes S-I-R-E!' Polypharmacy and inappropriate prescribing are associated with negative health outcomes in the elderly. Several prescribing tools have been developed to as... Ting,Ting,Selina,... - 《Singapore Medical Journal》 被引量: 0发表: 2018年 ...
There is no author summary for this article yet. Authors can add summaries to their articles on ScienceOpen to make them more accessible to a non-specialist audience. Abstract Inappropriate medication use in elderly patients has been linked to a large share of adverse drug reactions and to exc...
82% had their baseline ECGs checked and falls risk assessments done 35% had their lipids checked and 47% had their HbA1c checked 52% of the doctors were aware about NICE guidelines on prescribing anti-psychotic medications 70% of the doctors had knowledge about the side effects. CONCLUSIONS. ...
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