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Inappropriate medications in elderly ICU survivors: where to intervene?
Morandi A, Vasilevskis EE, Pandharipande PP, et al. Arch Intern Med. 2011;171:1032-1034.

This research letter reports on a study of potentially inappropriate prescriptions given to elderly patients discharged from the ICU and suggests that medication reconciliation could improve safety in this setting.
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