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Drug Prescribing in the Elderly Receiving Home Care.
BACKGROUND To compare the prevalence of potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs) using the 2012 and 2003 Beers Criteria in frail older patients receiving home health care services (HHS), and to explore the correlates of PIMs based on the 2012 Beers criteria. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 145 older patients (mean age, 80.9 ± 7.6 years) with Barthel scale ≤ 60 receiving regular HHS from ...
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Cardiovascular disease is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in persons older than 65 years. Hospitalizations due to heart failure have doubled over the past 20 years. Two thirds of myocardial infarcts occur in patients older than 65 [1]. Many articles have been published on appropriate use of drug therapy in the elderly, and the underuse of potentially beneficial therapy has ...
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OBJECTIVE To examine the amount of inappropriate drug prescribing for Americans aged 65 years or older living in the community. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey of a national probability sample of older adults. SETTING The 1987 National Medical Expenditure Survey, a national probability sample of the US civilian noninstitutionalized population, with oversampling of some population groups, incl...
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Background: Drug-drug Interaction (DDI) among the elderly is one of the major healthcare challenges worldwide. The present study assessed the rates of DDI and inappropriate drug prescription among the elderly in Kashan City, Iran. Methods: This descriptive-analytical study was designed, conducted, and reported according to the guideline of Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies ...
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Purpose Potentially inappropriate prescriptions (PIPs) criteria are widely used for evaluating the quality of prescribing in elderly. However, there is limited evidence on their association with adverse drug reactions (ADRs) across healthcare settings. The study aimed to determine the prevalence of PIPs, defined by the Screening Tool of Older Persons’ potentially inappropriate Prescriptions (ST...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Public Health
سال: 1979
ISSN: 0090-0036,1541-0048
DOI: 10.2105/ajph.69.6.611