Assessing Medication Appropriateness in the Elderly
- 1 June 2000
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Nature in Drugs & Aging
- Vol. 16 (6) , 437-450
Abstract
The disproportionate use of medications, combined with age-related pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic changes, places older adults at high risk for medication related problems (MRPs). MRPs...Keywords
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