Potentially inappropriate medication use among elderly home care patients in Europe

Fialova, Daniela, Topinkova, Eva, Gambassi, Giovanni, Finne-Soveri, Harriet, Jonsson, Palmi V., Carpenter, G. Iain, Schroll, Marianne, Onder, Graziano, Sorbye, Liv, Wanger, Cordula, and others. (2005) Potentially inappropriate medication use among elderly home care patients in Europe. Journal of the American Medical Association, 293 (11). pp. 1348-1358. ISSN 0098-7484. (doi:10.1001/jama.293.11.1348) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:5097)

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Abstract

Context Criteria for potentially inappropriate medication use among elderly patients have been used in the past decade in large US epidemiological surveys to identify populations at risk and specifically target risk-management strategies. In contrast, in Europe little information is available about potentially inappropriate medication use and is based on small studies with uncertain generalizability.

Item Type:	Article
DOI/Identification number:	10.1001/jama.293.11.1348
Uncontrolled keywords:	elderly patients, inappropriate medication, risk management
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HM Sociology
Divisions:	Divisions > Division for the Study of Law, Society and Social Justice > School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research > Centre for Health Services Studies
Depositing User:	Helen Wooldridge
Date Deposited:	21 Oct 2008 19:32 UTC
Last Modified:	16 Nov 2021 09:43 UTC
Resource URI:	https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/5097 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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