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- Title
Inappropriate prescribing in the elderly.
- Authors
Gallagher, P; Barry, P; O'Mahony, D
- Abstract
Drug therapy is necessary to treat acute illness, maintain current health and prevent further decline. However, optimizing drug therapy for older patients is challenging and sometimes, drug therapy can do more harm than good. Drug utilization review tools can highlight instances of potentially inappropriate prescribing to those involved in elderly pharmacotherapy, i.e. doctors, nurses and pharmacists. We aim to provide a review of the literature on potentially inappropriate prescribing in the elderly and also to review the explicit criteria that have been designed to detect potentially inappropriate prescribing in the elderly.
- Publication
Journal of clinical pharmacy and therapeutics, 2007, Vol 32, Issue 2, p113
- ISSN
0269-4727
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1365-2710.2007.00793.x