Appropriateness of psychotropic drug prescriptions in the elderly: structuring tools based on data extracted from the hospital information system to understand physician practices

Appropriateness of psychotropic drug prescriptions in the elderly: structuring tools based on data extracted from the hospital information system to understand physician practices

Abstract Background The appropriateness of psychotropic prescriptions in the elderly is a major quality-of-care challenge at hospital. Quality indicators have been developed to prevent inappropriate psychotropic prescriptions. We aimed to select and automatically calculate such indicators, from the...

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Main Authors: Aurélie Petit-Monéger, Vianney Jouhet, Frantz Thiessard, Driss Berdaï, Pernelle Noize, Véronique Gilleron, Guillaume Caridade, Louis-Rachid Salmi, Florence Saillour-Glénisson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-04-01
Series:BMC Health Services Research
Subjects:
Automated indicators
Drug prescription surveillance system
Psychotropic drugs
Physicians’ practices
Quality of care
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12913-019-4064-7

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