Potentially inappropriate medication prescribed to elderly outpatients at a general medicine unit
Objective: To establish the prevalence of potentially inappropriate medications prescribed for elderly patients, to identify the most commonly involved drugs, and to investigate whether age, sex and number of medications were related with the prescription of these drugs. Methods: Prescriptions for 1...
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Instituto Israelita de Ensino e Pesquisa Albert Einstein
2011-03-01
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| Series: | Einstein (São Paulo) |
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| Online Access: | http://apps.einstein.br/revista/arquivos/PDF/1844-Einsteinv9n1_18-23_eng.pdf |