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Impact of drug burden index on adverse health outcomes in Irish community-dwelling older people: a cohort study

BACKGROUND: The Drug Burden Index (DBI) quantifies exposure to medications with anticholinergic and/or sedative effects. A consensus list of DBI medications available in Ireland was recently developed for use as a DBI tool. The aim of this study was to validate this DBI tool by examining the associa...

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Autores principales: Byrne, Catherine J., Walsh, Caroline, Cahir, Caitriona, Bennett, Kathleen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6489229/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31035946
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-019-1138-7