The prevalence of polypharmacy in elderly attenders to an emergency department - a problem with a need for an effective solution

We studied the prevalence of polypharmacy in attenders aged 75 years and over to an emergency department (ED) in North London over a period of 1 month. We identified 467 patients in this age group. Analysis of medications being prescribed revealed at least 82 patients on medication with the potentia...

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Autores principales: Banerjee, Ashis, Mbamalu, David, Ebrahimi, Sayed, Khan, Arshad Ali, Chan, Toong Foo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer 2011
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Original Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3121581/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21635734
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1865-1380-4-22
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Khan, Arshad Ali
Chan, Toong Foo
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description We studied the prevalence of polypharmacy in attenders aged 75 years and over to an emergency department (ED) in North London over a period of 1 month. We identified 467 patients in this age group. Analysis of medications being prescribed revealed at least 82 patients on medication with the potential for adverse interaction. There is a need for ED-initiated strategies to identify interactions and for pathways to allow for medication review.
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spelling pubmed-31215812011-06-24 The prevalence of polypharmacy in elderly attenders to an emergency department - a problem with a need for an effective solution Banerjee, Ashis Mbamalu, David Ebrahimi, Sayed Khan, Arshad Ali Chan, Toong Foo Int J Emerg Med Original Research We studied the prevalence of polypharmacy in attenders aged 75 years and over to an emergency department (ED) in North London over a period of 1 month. We identified 467 patients in this age group. Analysis of medications being prescribed revealed at least 82 patients on medication with the potential for adverse interaction. There is a need for ED-initiated strategies to identify interactions and for pathways to allow for medication review. Springer 2011-06-02 /pmc/articles/PMC3121581/ /pubmed/21635734 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1865-1380-4-22 Text en Copyright ©2011 Banerjee et al; licensee Springer. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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