Inappropriate medications in elderly ICU survivors: where to intervene?

Alessandro Morandi; Eduard E. Vasilevskis; Pratik P. Pandharipande; Timothy D. Girard; Laurence M. Solberg; Erin B. Neal; Tyler Koestner; Renee Torres; Jennifer L. Thompson; Ayumi K. Shintani; Jin H. Han; John Schnelle; Donna M. Fick; Wesley Ely; Sunil Kripalani

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Inappropriate medications in elderly ICU survivors: where to intervene?

June 29, 2011

Morandi A, Vasilevskis EE, Pandharipande PP, et al. Arch Intern Med. 2011;171(11):1032-4.

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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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