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The impact of potentially inappropriate medication on the development of health care costs and its moderation by the number of prescribed substances. Results of a retrospective matched cohort study
BACKGROUND: In the growing population of the elderly, drug-related problems are considered an important health care safety issue. One aspect of this is the prescription of potentially inappropriate medication (PIM) which is considered to increase health care costs. OBJECTIVE: Using data from the Hea...
Autores principales: | Heider, Dirk, Matschinger, Herbert, Meid, Andreas D., Quinzler, Renate, Adler, Jürgen-Bernhard, Günster, Christian, Haefeli, Walter E., König, Hans-Helmut |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2018
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6067698/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30063697 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0198004 |
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