[Appropriate medication prescribing in older people]. / Bon usage des médicaments chez le sujet âgé.
Rev Med Interne
; 36(10): 677-89, 2015 Oct.
Article
in Fr
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-26003377
ABSTRACT
Drug-induced adverse effects are one of the main avoidable causes of hospitalization in older people. Numerous lists of potentially inappropriate medications for older people have been published, as national and international guidelines for appropriate prescribing in numerous diseases and for different age categories. The present review describes the general rules for an appropriate prescribing in older people and summarizes, for the main conditions encountered in older people, medications that are too often under-prescribed, the precautions of use of the main drugs that induce adverse effects, and drugs for which the benefit to risk ratio is unfavourable in older people. All these data are assembled in educational tables designed to be printed in a practical pocket format and used in daily practice by prescribers, whether physicians, surgeons or pharmacists.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Drug Prescriptions
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Practice Patterns, Physicians'
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Aged
Type of study:
Guideline
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Prognostic_studies
Limits:
Aged80
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Humans
Language:
Fr
Journal:
Rev Med Interne
Year:
2015
Type:
Article