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Intervention to Improve Appropriate Prescribing and Reduce Polypharmacy in Elderly Patients Admitted to an Internal Medicine Unit

BACKGROUND: Polypharmacy and inappropriate medication prescriptions are associated with increased morbidity and mortality. Most interventions proposed to improve appropriate prescribing are time and resource intensive and therefore hardly applicable in daily clinical practice. OBJECTIVE: To test the...

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Autores principales: Urfer, Milena, Elzi, Luigia, Dell-Kuster, Salome, Bassetti, Stefano
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5130196/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27902720
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0166359