Insight into appropriate medication prescribing for elderly in the COVID-19 era

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) complicates clinical management in elderly population. There is an additional need to properly treat and monitor elderly COVID-19 patients. This paper discusses the inappropriate medication prescribing in the elderly and suggests an updated valid assessment tool c...

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Autores principales: Omar, Amr S, Kaddoura, Rasha
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Baishideng Publishing Group Inc 2022
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9669855/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36405296
http://dx.doi.org/10.12998/wjcc.v10.i32.12056
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spelling pubmed-96698552022-11-18 Insight into appropriate medication prescribing for elderly in the COVID-19 era Omar, Amr S Kaddoura, Rasha World J Clin Cases Letter to the Editor Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) complicates clinical management in elderly population. There is an additional need to properly treat and monitor elderly COVID-19 patients. This paper discusses the inappropriate medication prescribing in the elderly and suggests an updated valid assessment tool considering COVID-19 and its treatment. Baishideng Publishing Group Inc 2022-11-16 2022-11-16 /pmc/articles/PMC9669855/ /pubmed/36405296 http://dx.doi.org/10.12998/wjcc.v10.i32.12056 Text en ©The Author(s) 2022. Published by Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. All rights reserved. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: https://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/
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Insight into appropriate medication prescribing for elderly in the COVID-19 era
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title_fullStr Insight into appropriate medication prescribing for elderly in the COVID-19 era
title_full_unstemmed Insight into appropriate medication prescribing for elderly in the COVID-19 era
title_short Insight into appropriate medication prescribing for elderly in the COVID-19 era
title_sort insight into appropriate medication prescribing for elderly in the covid-19 era
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9669855/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.12998/wjcc.v10.i32.12056
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