OBJECTIVE To reduce the number of potentially inappropriate medication orders, based on the Beers' criteria, for an elderly population residing in assisted living facilities through consultant pharmacist medication review, interventions, and recommendations DESIGN Prospective case series of consultant pharmacist recommendations. PATIENTS Census of 456 residents of assisted living facilities...

Free radicals are normally produced by living organism, at controlled production rate they perform physiological functions as signal transduction molecules. However, situations leading to an overproduction that surpasses antioxidant capacity creates oxidative stress. Consequently, damage to the cell membrane, protein, DNA and cell death are observed. Dairy cattle are susceptible to oxidative st...

Preferences are fundamental in decision-making, so understanding preference management is key developing systems that guide the choices of users. These can be decided through argument(s) which known to have various strengths, as one argument rely on more certain or vital information than other. We explored argumentation technique from a previous study, and validated its potentials by applying i...

CONTEXT Drug donations to developing countries may be part of medical relief operations in acute emergencies, development aid in non-emergency situations, or a corporate donations programme. After a number of documented inappropriate drug donations, the World Health Organization developed the 'Guidelines for Drug Donations', with the second and final version published in 1999. OBJECTIVES We r...

BACKGROUND general opinion is growing that drug cessation in complex older patients is warranted in certain situations. From a clinical viewpoint, drug cessation seems most warranted in four situations, i.e., falls, delirium, cognitive impairment and end-of-life situations. To date, little information about the effects of drug cessation in these four situations is available. OBJECTIVES to ide...

In the course of daily living, humans frequently encounter situations in which a motor activity, once initiated, becomes unnecessary or inappropriate. Under such circumstances, the ability to inhibit motor responses can be of vital importance. Although the nature of response inhibition has been studied in psychology for several decades, its neural basis remains unclear. Using transcranial magne...

good test-retest reliability. We used an interview format because it offers the advantage of minimizing missing and inappropriate responses.' In our study, 18 of 19 residents were able to successfully complete the instrument, allowing calculation of a global score. This is an essential part of the PSQI because it is this global score that differentiates good from poor sleepers. Because all of o...

OBJECTIVES To explore the extent of and factors associated with male nursing home residents who wander. DESIGN Cross-sectional design with secondary data analyses. SETTING One hundred thirty-four nursing home facilities operated by the Department of Veterans Affairs. PARTICIPANTS Fifteen thousand ninety-two nursing home residents with moderate or severe cognitive impairment admitted over ...

OBJECTIVE To examine the amount of inappropriate drug prescribing for Americans aged 65 years or older living in the community. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey of a national probability sample of older adults. SETTING The 1987 National Medical Expenditure Survey, a national probability sample of the US civilian noninstitutionalized population, with oversampling of some population groups, incl...