Title:prescriber Variation in Potentially Inappropriate Prescribing in Older Populations in Ireland
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Prescriber variation in potentially inappropriate prescribing in older populations in Ireland
BACKGROUND Health care policy-makers look for prescribing indicators at the population level to evaluate the performance of prescribers, improve quality and control drug costs. The aim of this research was to; (i) estimate the level of variation in potentially inappropriate prescribing (PIP) across prescribers in the national Irish older population using the STOPP criteria; (ii) estimate how re...
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