Expert Opinion on Drug Safety, ISSN 1474-0338, 01/2014, Volume 13, Issue 1, pp. 57 - 65
Introduction: Polypharmacy, defined as the use of multiple drugs or more than are medically necessary, is a growing concern for older adults. MEDLINE and...
aged | drug utilization | polypharmacy | suboptimal drug use | Aged | Suboptimal drug use | Polypharmacy | Drug utilization | CONTROLLED-TRIAL | DRUG-DISEASE INTERACTIONS | EVENTS | OLDER-ADULTS | PREVALENCE | FALL-RISK | WOMEN | FRAIL | PHARMACOLOGY & PHARMACY | INAPPROPRIATE MEDICATION | INTERVENTION | Pharmacists - organization & administration | Inappropriate Prescribing - adverse effects | Practice Patterns, Physicians' - standards | Prevalence | Age Factors | Humans | Interprofessional Relations | Inappropriate Prescribing - prevention & control | Professional Role | Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions - epidemiology | Practice Patterns, Physicians' - statistics & numerical data | Nursing Homes - statistics & numerical data
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JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association, ISSN 0098-7484, 10/2010, Volume 304, Issue 14, pp. 1592 - 1601
Multiple medication use is common in older adults and may ameliorate symptoms, improve and extend quality of life, and occasionally cure disease....
DISCONTINUING MEDICATIONS | CONTROLLED-TRIAL | MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL | EMERGENCY-DEPARTMENT VISITS | RISK-FACTORS | ADVERSE DRUG EVENTS | GENERAL-PRACTITIONERS | OLDER-ADULTS | PHARMACIST INTERVENTION | QUALITY INDICATORS | ADVANCED DEMENTIA | Polypharmacy | Humans | Aged, 80 and over | Medication Therapy Management | Aged | Practice Patterns, Physicians | Patient Compliance | Evidence-Based Medicine | Chronic Disease - drug therapy | Elder care | Patient safety | Side effects | Drug therapy | Risk factors | Clinical outcomes
DISCONTINUING MEDICATIONS | CONTROLLED-TRIAL | MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL | EMERGENCY-DEPARTMENT VISITS | RISK-FACTORS | ADVERSE DRUG EVENTS | GENERAL-PRACTITIONERS | OLDER-ADULTS | PHARMACIST INTERVENTION | QUALITY INDICATORS | ADVANCED DEMENTIA | Polypharmacy | Humans | Aged, 80 and over | Medication Therapy Management | Aged | Practice Patterns, Physicians | Patient Compliance | Evidence-Based Medicine | Chronic Disease - drug therapy | Elder care | Patient safety | Side effects | Drug therapy | Risk factors | Clinical outcomes
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Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, ISSN 0002-8614, 11/2019, Volume 67, Issue 11, pp. 2428 - 2428
See the Reply by Fried et al
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Drugs & Aging, ISSN 1170-229X, 11/2013, Volume 30, Issue 11, pp. 893 - 900
Potentially inappropriate prescribing for older adults is a major public health concern. While there are multiple measures of potentially inappropriate...
Pharmacotherapy | Internal Medicine | Medicine & Public Health | Pharmacology/Toxicology | Geriatrics/Gerontology | HOSPITALIZED-PATIENTS | PRIMARY-CARE | OUTPATIENTS | OLDER-ADULTS | GERIATRIC INPATIENTS | PHARMACOLOGY & PHARMACY | RELIABILITY | RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED-TRIAL | ADVERSE DRUG-REACTIONS | PRESCRIBING CRITERIA | ELDERLY-PATIENTS | GERIATRICS & GERONTOLOGY | Drug Prescriptions - statistics & numerical data | Reproducibility of Results | Humans | Inappropriate Prescribing - statistics & numerical data | Databases, Factual | Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic | Medicine | Usage | Prescription writing | Research | Formulae, receipts, prescriptions | Quality management
Pharmacotherapy | Internal Medicine | Medicine & Public Health | Pharmacology/Toxicology | Geriatrics/Gerontology | HOSPITALIZED-PATIENTS | PRIMARY-CARE | OUTPATIENTS | OLDER-ADULTS | GERIATRIC INPATIENTS | PHARMACOLOGY & PHARMACY | RELIABILITY | RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED-TRIAL | ADVERSE DRUG-REACTIONS | PRESCRIBING CRITERIA | ELDERLY-PATIENTS | GERIATRICS & GERONTOLOGY | Drug Prescriptions - statistics & numerical data | Reproducibility of Results | Humans | Inappropriate Prescribing - statistics & numerical data | Databases, Factual | Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic | Medicine | Usage | Prescription writing | Research | Formulae, receipts, prescriptions | Quality management
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JAMA Internal Medicine, ISSN 2168-6106, 03/2015, Volume 175, Issue 3, pp. 401 - 407
IMPORTANCE: Many medications have anticholinergic effects. In general, anticholinergic-induced cognitive impairment is considered reversible on discontinuation...
DEPRESSION | MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL | ALZHEIMERS-DISEASE | OLDER-ADULTS | DRUGS | RISK | SCOPOLAMINE | HEALTH | MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT | APOLIPOPROTEIN-E | HYPERSENSITIVITY | Alzheimer Disease - etiology | Prospective Studies | Humans | Muscarinic Antagonists - adverse effects | Male | Dementia - epidemiology | Cholinergic Antagonists - administration & dosage | Histamine H1 Antagonists - adverse effects | Muscarinic Antagonists - administration & dosage | Dementia - chemically induced | Antidepressive Agents, Tricyclic - adverse effects | Histamine H1 Antagonists - administration & dosage | Aged, 80 and over | Alzheimer Disease - epidemiology | Female | Aged | Cholinergic Antagonists - adverse effects | Antidepressive Agents, Tricyclic - administration & dosage | Cohort Studies | Medical personnel | Care and treatment | Practice | Dosage and administration | Patients | Risk factors | Parasympatholytic agents | Dementia
DEPRESSION | MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL | ALZHEIMERS-DISEASE | OLDER-ADULTS | DRUGS | RISK | SCOPOLAMINE | HEALTH | MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT | APOLIPOPROTEIN-E | HYPERSENSITIVITY | Alzheimer Disease - etiology | Prospective Studies | Humans | Muscarinic Antagonists - adverse effects | Male | Dementia - epidemiology | Cholinergic Antagonists - administration & dosage | Histamine H1 Antagonists - adverse effects | Muscarinic Antagonists - administration & dosage | Dementia - chemically induced | Antidepressive Agents, Tricyclic - adverse effects | Histamine H1 Antagonists - administration & dosage | Aged, 80 and over | Alzheimer Disease - epidemiology | Female | Aged | Cholinergic Antagonists - adverse effects | Antidepressive Agents, Tricyclic - administration & dosage | Cohort Studies | Medical personnel | Care and treatment | Practice | Dosage and administration | Patients | Risk factors | Parasympatholytic agents | Dementia
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Lancet, The, ISSN 0140-6736, 2007, Volume 370, Issue 9582, pp. 173 - 184
Summary Prescription of medicines is a fundamental component of the care of elderly people, and optimisation of drug prescribing for this group of patients has...
Internal Medicine | Practice Patterns, Physicians' - statistics & numerical data | Humans | Aged, 80 and over | Pharmaceutical Services | Aged | Drug Utilization Review | Pharmaceutical Preparations - administration & dosage | Geriatrics | Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic | Health care | Elderly people | Pharmacology | Patients | Optimization | Validity | Prescription drugs | Older people | Quality | Aging | Frailty | Elderly | Dementia | Predictive control
Internal Medicine | Practice Patterns, Physicians' - statistics & numerical data | Humans | Aged, 80 and over | Pharmaceutical Services | Aged | Drug Utilization Review | Pharmaceutical Preparations - administration & dosage | Geriatrics | Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic | Health care | Elderly people | Pharmacology | Patients | Optimization | Validity | Prescription drugs | Older people | Quality | Aging | Frailty | Elderly | Dementia | Predictive control
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JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association, ISSN 0098-7484, 02/2018, Volume 319, Issue 8, pp. 828 - 829
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Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, ISSN 0002-8614, 12/2015, Volume 63, Issue 12, pp. e8 - e18
The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) and the Pharmacy Quality Alliance (PQA) use the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) Beers Criteria to...
Beers Criteria | inappropriate medications | medication management
Beers Criteria | inappropriate medications | medication management
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Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, ISSN 0002-8614, 12/2015, Volume 63, Issue 12, pp. e8 - e18
The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) and the Pharmacy Quality Alliance (PQA) use the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) Beers Criteria to...
Beers Criteria | inappropriate medications | medication management | MANAGEMENT | INITIATION | GERIATRICS & GERONTOLOGY | OLDER-PEOPLE | INDICATORS | HEALTHY MENOPAUSAL WOMEN | ESCITALOPRAM | GERONTOLOGY | OSPEMIFENE | HOT FLASHES | VULVO-VAGINAL ATROPHY | DYSPAREUNIA | Usage | Drug interactions | Aged | Medicare | Alternatives | Drug stores | Older people
Beers Criteria | inappropriate medications | medication management | MANAGEMENT | INITIATION | GERIATRICS & GERONTOLOGY | OLDER-PEOPLE | INDICATORS | HEALTHY MENOPAUSAL WOMEN | ESCITALOPRAM | GERONTOLOGY | OSPEMIFENE | HOT FLASHES | VULVO-VAGINAL ATROPHY | DYSPAREUNIA | Usage | Drug interactions | Aged | Medicare | Alternatives | Drug stores | Older people
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American Journal of Geriatric Pharmacotherapy, ISSN 1543-5946, 2007, Volume 5, Issue 4, pp. 345 - 351
Abstract Background: Polypharmacy (ie, the use of multiple medications and/or the administration of more medications than are clinically indicated,...
Internal Medicine | older adults | mortality | morbidity | polypharmacy | Practice Patterns, Physicians' - statistics & numerical data | Polypharmacy | Practice Patterns, Physicians' - standards | Age Factors | Humans | Risk Factors | Medication Errors - prevention & control | Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions - etiology | Aged | Medication Errors - statistics & numerical data | Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions - epidemiology | Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic | Index Medicus
Internal Medicine | older adults | mortality | morbidity | polypharmacy | Practice Patterns, Physicians' - statistics & numerical data | Polypharmacy | Practice Patterns, Physicians' - standards | Age Factors | Humans | Risk Factors | Medication Errors - prevention & control | Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions - etiology | Aged | Medication Errors - statistics & numerical data | Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions - epidemiology | Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic | Index Medicus
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Annals of Internal Medicine, ISSN 0003-4819, 02/2017, Volume 166, Issue 3, pp. 157 - 163
Recent federal policy changes attempt to expand veterans' access to providers outside the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Receipt of prescription...
Inappropriate Prescribing | Antipsychotic Agents - therapeutic use | Dementia - drug therapy | United States | Humans | Risk Factors | Aged | Ambulatory Care - statistics & numerical data | Retrospective Studies | United States Department of Veterans Affairs - statistics & numerical data | Medicare Part D - statistics & numerical data | Drugs | Prescribing | Medical care | Dosage and administration | Management | Drug therapy | Risk factors | Dementia
Inappropriate Prescribing | Antipsychotic Agents - therapeutic use | Dementia - drug therapy | United States | Humans | Risk Factors | Aged | Ambulatory Care - statistics & numerical data | Retrospective Studies | United States Department of Veterans Affairs - statistics & numerical data | Medicare Part D - statistics & numerical data | Drugs | Prescribing | Medical care | Dosage and administration | Management | Drug therapy | Risk factors | Dementia
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Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, ISSN 1525-8610, 08/2018, Volume 19, Issue 8, pp. 644 - 645
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Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, ISSN 0002-8614, 2001, Volume 49, Issue 2, pp. 200 - 209
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Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, ISSN 0002-8614, 11/2019
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Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, ISSN 0002-8614, 07/2019, Volume 67, Issue 7, p. 1461
To better understand indications for [beta]-blocker (BB) prescriptions among older adults hospitalized with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction...
Heart failure | Medical records | Aged | Heart attack
Heart failure | Medical records | Aged | Heart attack
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