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Indonesian Journal of Pharmaceutical Education, 2023 Diabetes melitus can lead to complications if not controlled, the risk of complications in geriatric patiens can lead to an increase in the number of drugs prescribed, so that many geriatric receive polypharmacy drugs.
Kumala Sari Poespita Dewi Wahyuni +3 more
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Potentially inappropriate medication use in hospitalized elders [PDF]
Journal of Hospital Medicine, 2008 AbstractBACKGROUND:Prescribing of potentially harmful medications has not been well documented in hospitals.OBJECTIVE:The objective of the study was to determine the rate of and factors associated with potentially inappropriate medication (PIM) prescribing in a large inpatient sample.DESIGN:The study was a retrospective cohort of the period between ...
Michael B, Rothberg +7 more
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Nutritional Status and Potentially Inappropriate Medications in Elderly
Journal of Clinical Medicine, 2022 (1) Background: The association between polypharmacy and malnutrition has been investigated in several studies; however, few of these specifically deepened the relationship between potentially inappropriate medication and malnutrition. With a descriptive approach, the primary aim of our study was to evaluate the impact of the nutritional status ...
Simona Loddo +5 more
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Prescribing of potentially inappropriate medications to elderly people [PDF]
Family Practice, 2004 To estimate the prevalence and predictors of medications deemed potentially inappropriate for the elderly among family physicians' patients aged 65 and older (seniors) taking multiple prescribed medications.Forty-eight randomly selected family practices in 16 towns and cities in Southern Ontario, Canada and 889 of their senior patients were recruited ...
Michelle, Howard +4 more
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Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2022 Objectives: Age-related multimorbidity is a general problem in older patients, which increases the prevalence of potentially inappropriate medication (PIM) use.
Fangyuan Tian +4 more
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BMC Geriatrics, 2018 Background Few studies have evaluated the characteristics of elderly patients with polypharmacy refusing deprescribing. The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of potentially inappropriate medication (PIM) use in elderly patients accepting ...
Junpei Komagamine +2 more
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Potentially inappropriate medications in elderly
Revista da Associação Médica Brasileira (English Edition), 2012 To compare PRISCUS with Beers-Fick in detecting potentially inappropriate medication (PIMs) in elderly at their first outpatient geriatric visit.Retrospective medical record analysis by PRISCUS and Beers-Fick adapted to Brazilian pharmacopoeia, comparing the finding of PIMs at the first outpatient geriatric visit by both criteria.Cases had mean age of ...
Gorzoni, Milton Luiz +2 more
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Potentially inappropriate medication prescribed to elderly outpatients at a general medicine unit [PDF]
Einstein (São Paulo), 2011 Objective: To establish the prevalence of potentially inappropriate medications prescribed for elderly patients, to identify the most commonly involved drugs, and to investigate whether age, sex and number of medications were related with the ...
Christine Grützmann Faustino +2 more
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São Paulo Medical Journal, 2021 BACKGROUND: Physician and patient-related characteristics can influence prescription of medications to older patients within primary healthcare. Use of Brazilian criteria may indicate the real prevalence of prescription of potentially inappropriate ...
Welma Wildes Amorim +7 more
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The impact of hospitalisation to geriatric wards on the use of medications and potentially inappropriate medications - A health register study [PDF]
, 2020 Background - The use of potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs) are associated with negative health effects for older adults. The purpose of this study was to apply national register data to investigate the impact of hospitalisation to geriatric ...
Svendsen, Kristian +4 more
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