Scientific article
English

Interdisciplinary geriatric and psychiatric care reduces potentially inappropriate prescribing in the hospital: interventional study in 150 acutely ill elderly patients with mental and somatic comorbid conditions

Published inJournal of the American Medical Directors Association, vol. 13, no. 4, p. 406.e1-7
Publication date2012
Abstract

Potentially inappropriate medications and prescription omissions (PO) are highly prevalent in older patients with mental comorbidities.

Keywords
  • Academic Medical Centers
  • Acute Disease/therapy
  • Aged
  • 80 and over
  • Chronic Disease
  • Cognition Disorders/diagnosis/drug therapy/epidemiology
  • Comorbidity
  • Female
  • Follow-Up Studies
  • Geriatric Assessment/methods
  • Geriatrics/methods
  • Hospitalization/statistics & numerical data
  • Humans
  • Inappropriate Prescribing/adverse effects/statistics & numerical data
  • Interdisciplinary Communication
  • Intervention Studies
  • Male
  • Medication Errors/prevention & control/statistics & numerical data
  • Mental Disorders/drug therapy/epidemiology
  • Needs Assessment
  • Pharmaceutical Preparations/administration & dosage/adverse effects
  • Prevalence
  • Prospective Studies
  • Psychiatry/methods
  • Quality Control
  • Severity of Illness Index
  • Treatment Outcome
Citation (ISO format)
LANG, Pierre Olivier et al. Interdisciplinary geriatric and psychiatric care reduces potentially inappropriate prescribing in the hospital: interventional study in 150 acutely ill elderly patients with mental and somatic comorbid conditions. In: Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 2012, vol. 13, n° 4, p. 406.e1–7. doi: 10.1016/j.jamda.2011.03.008
Identifiers
Journal ISSN1525-8610
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