Inappropriate Medication Use in The Elderly of Amir Kola and Related Factors

Beers' criteria for potentially inappropriate medication use in the elderly.

BEST TOOL: The adapted Beers’ Criteria (HCFA Guidelines for Potentially Inappropriate Medications in the Elderly) identifies medications noted by an expert panel to have potential risks that outweigh potential benefits of the drug. The criteria are appropriate for persons older than 65 years of age, regardless of their level of frailty. The criteria provide a rating of severity for adverse outc...

Inappropriate Medication Use among the Elderly: a Systematic Review

Title: Inappropriate Medication Use among the Elderly: a Systematic Review

s excluded? The authors state that the axes of the search equation were “population, intervention and outcome” yet none of the search terms pertain to intervention or outcomes. The authors do not present any results that pertain to the use of inappropriate prescribing criteria as an intervention or on the outcomes of using such drugs. It would appear that the authors have only conducted a revie...

Potentially inappropriate medication use in elderly Japanese patients.

BACKGROUND Modified Beers criteria for elderly Japanese patients were developed in 2008 by consensus among 9 experts to reflect regional clinical practice and available medications in Japan. Since then, many physicians and pharmacists have expressed interest in obtaining more information about the criteria and alternative drug choices. OBJECTIVE This study examined the incidence, health care ...

the evaluation of language related engagment and task related engagment with the purpose of investigating the effect of metatalk and task typology

abstract while task-based instruction is considered as the most effective way to learn a language in the related literature, it is oversimplified on various grounds. different variables may affect how students are engaged with not only the language but also with the task itself. the present study was conducted to investigate language and task related engagement on the basis of the task typolog...

learners’ attitudes toward the effectiveness of mobile-assisted language learning (mall) in vocabulary acquisition in the iranian efl context: the case of word lists, audiobooks and dictionary use

رشد انفجاری تکنولوژی فرصت های آموزشی مهیج و جدیدی را پیش روی فراگیران و آموزش دهندگان گذاشته است. امروزه معلمان برای اینکه در امر آموزش زبان بروز باشند باید روش هایی را اتخاذ نمایند که درآن ها از تکنولوژی جهت کمک در یادگیری زبان دوم و چندم استفاده شده باشد. با در نظر گرفتن تحولاتی که رشته ی آموزش زبان در حال رخ دادن است هم اکنون زمان مناسبی برای ارزشیابی نگرش های موجود نسبت به تکنولوژی های جدید...