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- Title
Prescripción de fármacos por Certificado Médico de Medicamentos en gerontes multimórbidos. Cienfuegos. Cuba. 2018.
- Authors
Cisneros Nápoles, Yacelis Dahilet; Vargas Batista, Isnel; del Rosario Ramírez Pérez, Alicia; Dueñas Pérez, Yeny; Rodríguez Herrera, Eidys; Chávez Cisneros, Sheila Isabel
- Abstract
Irrational prescription is a cause for concern, because it has a deleterious repercussions on the disease-health process, especially in old people. With the aim of characterizing the prescription of drugs dispensed by Medical Certificate of Medication in gerontes of the clinic 1 of the health area II of the municipality of Cienfuegos, a observational, descriptive and transverse study about the use of medications was made in that population, during the period between August 2015 and August 2016. Relevant results about prescription of drugs by Medical Certificate of Medication in gerontes multimorbides was represented by the presence of polypharmacy in independent women for the activities instrumented of the daily life and with absence of cognitive deterioration. The most commonly used pharmacological groups corresponded to the current statistics on the main causes of morbidity and mortality in Cuba.
- Subjects
CUBA; CIENFUEGOS (Cuba); DRUGS; OLDER people; DRUG utilization; CLINICS; DISEASES
- Publication
RETEL: Revista de Toxicología en Línea, 2019, Issue 58, p1
- ISSN
1668-091X
- Publication type
Article