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Drug Utilization and Inappropriate Prescribing in Centenarians

OBJECTIVES To use primary care electronic health records (EHRs) to evaluate prescriptions and inappropriate prescribing in men and women at age 100. DESIGN Population-based cohort study. SETTING Primary care database in the United Kingdom, 1990 to 2013. PARTICIPANTS Individuals reaching the age of 100 between 1990 and 2013 (N = 11,084; n = 8,982 women, n = 2,102 men). MEASUREMENTS Main ...

Curbing Inappropriate Antibiotic Prescribing: What Works?

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has campaigned to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing for more than 20 years, yet antibiotic prescriptions for acute respiratory tract infections, which generally do not require antibiotic treatment, have decreased only modestly for children and not at all for adults.1,2 Physicians are aware of the problem of resistance to antibiotics, but ...

Inappropriate prescribing: criteria, detection and prevention.

Inappropriate prescribing is highly prevalent in older people and is a major healthcare concern because of its association with negative healthcare outcomes including adverse drug events, related morbidity and hospitalization. With changing population demographics resulting in increasing proportions of older people worldwide, improving the quality and safety of prescribing in older people poses...

Study of Inappropriate prescribing of antibiotics in pediatric Gastroenteritis in Imam Reza Hospital-Bojnurd

Introduction: Increasing microbial resistance to antibiotic medications are a common phenomenon in developing countries and development country. In this study, administration of correct, incorrect and inappropriate antibiotic in children under 7 years of age with Gastroenteritis in the pediatric ward of Imam Reza (AS) in the years 2012-2013 was performed Bojnurd-Iran. Materials and Methods: ...