Inappropriate Prescribing in the Elderly Patients
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Inappropriate medication prescribing for elderly ambulatory care patients.
BACKGROUND Inappropriate medication use in elderly patients has been linked to a large share of adverse drug reactions and to excess health care utilization. METHODS Trends in the prevalence of potentially inappropriate drug prescribing at ambulatory care visits by elderly persons from 1995 to 2000 were examined with data from office-based physicians in the National Ambulatory Medical Care Su...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the Korean Medical Association
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1975-8456
DOI: 10.5124/jkma.2009.52.1.91