Joint effects of advancing age and number of potentially inappropriate medication classes on risk of falls in Medicare enrollees

BACKGROUND: Injurious falls among older adults are both common and costly. The prevalence of falls is known to increase with age and with use of fall-risk drugs/potentially inappropriate medications (FRD/PIM). Little is known about the joint effects of these two risk factors. METHODS: Data for 2013–...

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Autores principales: Early, Nicole K., Fairman, Kathleen A., Hagarty, Jacqueline M., Sclar, David A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6642496/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31324232
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-019-1202-3

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