Inappropriate Medication is a Major Cause of Adverse Drug Reactions in Elderly Patients

To determine the extent to which adverse drug reactions (ADRs) in elderly patients admitted to hospital are due to inappropriate prescribing, we examined 416 successive admissions of elderly patients to a teaching hospital. Interacting drug combinations and drugs with relative contra-indications (CI...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Age and ageing 1992-07, Vol.21 (4), p.294-300
Hauptverfasser:	LINDLEY, C. M., TULLY, M. P., PARAMSOTHY, V., TALLIS, R. C.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Aged Biological and medical sciences Contraindications Drug Hypersensitivity - etiology Drug Interactions Drug Therapy, Combination Drug toxicity and drugs side effects treatment Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions Drugs Health care Humans Medical research Medical sciences Medication Errors Miscellaneous (drug allergy, mutagens, teratogens...) Older people Pharmaceutical Preparations Pharmacology. Drug treatments Risk Factors
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