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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...
Autores principales: | Urfer, Milena, Elzi, Luigia, Dell-Kuster, Salome, Bassetti, Stefano |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |
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