Response to “Potentially Inappropriate Medication Prescriptions for Older Adults with Painful Conditions and Association with Return Emergency Department Visits”
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Potentially inappropriate medication utilization in the emergency department visits by older adults: analysis from a nationally representative sample.
OBJECTIVES The objectives were to determine the frequency of administration of potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs) to older emergency department (ED) patients and to examine recent trends in the rates of PIM usage. METHODS The data examined during the study were obtained from the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS). This study utilized the nationally representat...
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A persistent problem for emergency physicians is the patient who returns unscheduled to the emergency department with a problem that either has not improved or has worsened. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the frequency of revisits and the nature of the problems. All patients returning within 72 hours of their initial visit were entered into the study. The charts were evaluated for cl...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
سال: 2019
ISSN: 0002-8614,1532-5415
DOI: 10.1111/jgs.15976