Assessing potentially inappropriate prescribing (PIP) and predicting patient outcomes in Ontario’s older population: a population-based cohort study applying subsets of the STOPP/START and Beers’ criteria in large health administrative databases

INTRODUCTION: Adverse drug events (ADEs) are common in older people and contribute significantly to emergency department (ED) visits, unplanned hospitalisations, healthcare costs, morbidity and mortality. Many ADEs are avoidable if attention is directed towards identifying and preventing inappropria...

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Autores principales: Bjerre, Lise M, Ramsay, Timothy, Cahir, Catriona, Ryan, Cristín, Halil, Roland, Farrell, Barbara, Thavorn, Kednapa, Catley, Christina, Hawken, Steven, Gillespie, Ulrika, Manuel, Douglas G
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2015
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Epidemiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4663446/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26608642
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2015-010146

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