1. [Appropriate medication prescribing in older people].
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Blain H, Rambourg P, Le Quellec A, Ayach L, Biboulet P, Bismuth M, Blain A, Boulenger JP, Celton B, Combe B, Dauvilliers Y, Davy JM, Geny C, Hemmi P, Hillaire-Buys D, Jalabert A, Jung B, Leclercq F, Léglise MS, Morel J, Mourad G, Ponrouch MP, Puisieux F, Quantin X, Quéré I, Renard E, Ribstein J, Roch-Torreilles I, Rolland Y, Rosant D, Terminet A, Thuret R, Villiet M, Deshormières N, Bourret R, Bousquet J, Jonquet O, and Millat B
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- Age Factors, Aged, 80 and over, Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions epidemiology, Humans, Inappropriate Prescribing prevention & control, Inappropriate Prescribing statistics & numerical data, Medication Errors prevention & control, Medication Errors statistics & numerical data, Aged, Drug Prescriptions standards, Drug Prescriptions statistics & numerical data, Practice Patterns, Physicians' statistics & numerical data
- 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., (Copyright © 2015 Société nationale française de médecine interne (SNFMI). Published by Elsevier SAS. All rights reserved.)
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- 2015
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