Assessing the overall medication use by elderly people in a Brazilian hospital using the start/stopp criteria version 2

To estimate the frequency of the use of medicines listed in the Screening Tool to Alert Doctors to the Right Treatment (START) and Screening Tool of Older Person’s Prescriptions (STOPP) criteria version 2 among the elderly. A cross-sectional study was conducted on elderly who were attended in medica...

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Main Authors: Thayná Ferreira Furtado Pereira, Alessandra de Sá Soares, Daisson José Trevisol, Fabiana Schuelter-Trevisol
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo
Series:Brazilian Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1984-82502019000100531&lng=en&tlng=en