Medication Risk and Polypharmacy in Minority Older Adults [PDF]
, 2020 Medication Risk and Polypharmacy in Minority Older Adults Rusha Patel, Depts. of Biology and Chemistry, with Dr. Youssef Roman, VCU School of Pharmacy, Dr. Elvin Price, VCU School of Pharmacy, and Dr.
Patel, Rusha
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The potential for deprescribing in care home residents with Type 2 diabetes [PDF]
, 2016 Background: Type 2 diabetes is a common diagnosis in care home residents that is associated with potentially inappropriate prescribing and thus risk of additional suffering.
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BMC Geriatrics, 2023 Background Shared decision-making(SDM) is recognized as an important means of managing polypharmacy among older people with chronic diseases. However, no studies have quantitatively measured the effect of SDM on polypharmacy.
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Potentially inappropriate prescribing in nursing home residents detected with the community pharmacist specific GheOP3S-tool [PDF]
, 2016 Background: The Ghent Older People’s Prescriptions community Pharmacy Screening (GheOP3S-)tool was recently developed to screen for potentially inappropriate prescribing (PIP).
Boussery, Koen +7 more
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Regional differences in the profile of disabled community-dwelling older adults: a European population-based cross-sectional study [PDF]
, 2018 The main objective of this work was to estimate the prevalence of disability in European community-dwelling older adults, as well as to investigate differences in the profile of disabled older adults between European regions (Northern, Central, Eastern ...
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Polypharmacy, socioeconomic indicators and number of diseases: results from ELSA-Brasil [PDF]
Revista Brasileira de Epidemiologia, 2020 : Objective: To estimate the prevalence of polypharmacy, describe the pharmacotherapeutic classes used, and investigate whether polypharmacy is associated with demographic and socioeconomic indicators, regardless of the number of diseases, among ...
Isabella Ribeiro Silva +8 more
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Issues potentially affecting quality of life arising from long-term medicines use: a qualitative study [PDF]
, 2013 Background Polypharmacy is increasing and managing large number of medicines may create a burden for patients. Many patients have negative views of medicines and their use can adversely affect quality of life.
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Seizure, 1995 The development of assays for plasma antiepileptic drug concentrations has led to the discovery of many pharmacokinetic interactions, some causing drug intoxication and others resulting in ineffective drug concentrations. In the 1970s, a number of epileptologists began to argue that single drug therapy was desirable in the treatment of epilepsy and ...
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Do frailty and comorbidity indices improve risk prediction of 28-day ED reattendance? Reanalysis of an ED discharge nomogram for older people [PDF]
, 2018 Background: In older people, quantification of risk of reattendance after emergency department (ED) discharge is important to provide adequate post ED discharge care in the community to appropriately targeted patients at risk. Methods: We reanalysed data
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Polypharmacy in African American Adults: A National Epidemiological Study
Pharmacy, 2019 Background: Despite the association between polypharmacy and undesired health outcomes being well established, very little is known about epidemiology of polypharmacy in the African American community.
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