Background: The prescription of inappropriate medications is a recognized problem, to which the elderly are a vulnerable population.Objective: To describe the potentially inappropriate medications in the elderly (PIME) treated at outpatient consultation in a fourth-level hospital in Bogota in 2007. Materials and methods: A cross-sectional study was developed, updated in 2002 Beers criteria were used as PIME. The information was obtained from the last record in the medical history in 2007, from a sample of 420 outpatient elderly people in a fourth-level hospital.Results: The average number of drugs prescribed was 3.2. 61.95% of the patients were polymedicated. Drug groups most frequently prescribed were those acting on the cardiovascular sys...
Objetivo Describir la medicación potencialmente inapropiada en ancianos (MPIA) atendidos en consulta...
Polypharmacy in the elderly is of interest to health authorities because it predisposes to ha...
Objective: The aims of this study were to identify potentially inappropriate prescribing using the B...
Background: The prescription of inappropriate medications is a recognized problem, to which the elde...
Introduction: improper use of medication is becoming more frequent and can cause physical or physiol...
Introduction: Potentially inappropriate medication is associated with adverse health and functional ...
Datos de la OMS en 2014, afirman que entre el 2015 y 2050, la proporción de la población mundial con...
Background: Medications in which the risk of adverse events exceeds the expectations of clinical ben...
Objetivo: Analizar el uso inadecuado de medicamentos en pacientes pluripatológicos de edad avanzada....
El uso inadecuado de medicamentos en el adulto mayor representa un problema de salud pública en cons...
INTRODUÇÃO: Indivíduos idosos são considerados mais vulneráveis à ocorrência de eventos adversos dev...
With the present scientific article the main results of the research activity will be revealed, with...
ResumenObjetivoAnalizar el uso inadecuado de medicamentos en pacientes pluripatológicos de edad avan...
OBJETIVO: Identificar y cuantificar la prescripción potencialmente inapropiada (PPI) y otros problem...
Objetivo: Determinar la prescripción inadecuada de fármacos psicotrópicos en adultos mayores, según ...
Objetivo Describir la medicación potencialmente inapropiada en ancianos (MPIA) atendidos en consulta...
Polypharmacy in the elderly is of interest to health authorities because it predisposes to ha...
Objective: The aims of this study were to identify potentially inappropriate prescribing using the B...
Background: The prescription of inappropriate medications is a recognized problem, to which the elde...
Introduction: improper use of medication is becoming more frequent and can cause physical or physiol...
Introduction: Potentially inappropriate medication is associated with adverse health and functional ...
Datos de la OMS en 2014, afirman que entre el 2015 y 2050, la proporción de la población mundial con...
Background: Medications in which the risk of adverse events exceeds the expectations of clinical ben...
Objetivo: Analizar el uso inadecuado de medicamentos en pacientes pluripatológicos de edad avanzada....
El uso inadecuado de medicamentos en el adulto mayor representa un problema de salud pública en cons...
INTRODUÇÃO: Indivíduos idosos são considerados mais vulneráveis à ocorrência de eventos adversos dev...
With the present scientific article the main results of the research activity will be revealed, with...
ResumenObjetivoAnalizar el uso inadecuado de medicamentos en pacientes pluripatológicos de edad avan...
OBJETIVO: Identificar y cuantificar la prescripción potencialmente inapropiada (PPI) y otros problem...
Objetivo: Determinar la prescripción inadecuada de fármacos psicotrópicos en adultos mayores, según ...
Objetivo Describir la medicación potencialmente inapropiada en ancianos (MPIA) atendidos en consulta...
Polypharmacy in the elderly is of interest to health authorities because it predisposes to ha...
Objective: The aims of this study were to identify potentially inappropriate prescribing using the B...