Inappropriate Medication in Home Health Care
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Potentially inappropriate medication use among elderly home care patients in Europe.
CONTEXT Criteria for potentially inappropriate medication use among elderly patients have been used in the past decade in large US epidemiological surveys to identify populations at risk and specifically target risk-management strategies. In contrast, in Europe little information is available about potentially inappropriate medication use and is based on small studies with uncertain generalizab...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of General Internal Medicine
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0884-8734,1525-1497
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-012-1992-x