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- Title
Potentially inappropriate prescribing among Australian veterans and war widows/widowers.
- Authors
Roughead, E. E.; Anderson, B.; Gilbert, A. L.
- Abstract
This study examined the extent of potentially inappropriate medicine, as defined by explicit criteria, dispensed to Australian veterans using the Repatriation Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme Pharmacy Claims database. Twenty-one per cent of the 192 363 veterans aged 70 years, with an eligible gold card, were dispensed at least one potentially inappropriate medicine in the first 6 months of 2005. Long-acting benzodiazepines, amitriptyline, amiodarone, oxybutynin and doxepin were the medicines most commonly implicated. Strategies to support quality prescribing of medicines to the elderly must include a focus on these medicines.
- Subjects
AUSTRALIA; DRUG prescribing; VETERANS; WAR widows; WAR widowers
- Publication
Internal Medicine Journal, 2007, Vol 37, Issue 6, p402
- ISSN
1444-0903
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1445-5994.2007.01316.x