Potentially inappropriate prescriptions for elderly people taking antidepressant: comparative tools
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Potentially inappropriate prescriptions for elderly people taking antidepressant: comparative tools
BACKGROUND The use of psychotropic drugs by elderly people is widely spread around the world, given that prevalence of inappropriate medication is frequent. Strictly speaking, in Brazil, the vulnerable population of elderly people is more likely to use Potentially Inappropriate Psychotropic (PIP) due to the impact of social-economic characteristics, to the Brazilian Public Health System, and to...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Geriatrics
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1471-2318
DOI: 10.1186/s12877-017-0674-2