Prescribing pattern, polypharmacy and potentially inappropriate prescribing in hospitalized elderly patients: a retrospective study in a teaching hospital in Nepal
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Prescribing of Potentially Inappropriate Medications to Elderly People by Medical Specialists in Isfahan, Iran
The goal of this study is to identify the types of potentially inappropriate drugs prescribed by the medical specialists of Isfahan province to elderly patients. A number of 31,254 randomly selected prescriptions from medical specialists of Isfahan province were reviewed for elderly patients who were insured by the Social Security Organization. Three thousand and seven prescriptions were...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Scientific Reports
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2454-2164,2454-2156
DOI: 10.18203/issn.2454-2156.intjscirep20160087