Polypharmacy and inappropriate medication use in patients with dementia: an underresearched problem
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Polypharmacy and inappropriate medication use in patients with dementia: an underresearched problem.
Multimorbidity and polypharmacy are increasingly prevalent across healthcare systems and settings as global demographic trends shift towards increased proportions of older people in populations. Numerous studies have demonstrated an association between polypharmacy and potentially inappropriate prescribing (PIP), and have reported high prevalence of PIP across settings of care in Europe and Nor...
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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 ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Therapeutic Advances in Drug Safety
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2042-0986,2042-0994
DOI: 10.1177/2042098616670798