Potentially inappropriate medications in a large cohort of patients in geriatric units: association with clinical and functional characteristics.

Martin F. Fromm; Renke Maas; Thomas Tümena; Karl-Günter Gaßmann

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Potentially inappropriate medications in a large cohort of patients in geriatric units: association with clinical and functional characteristics.

June 19, 2013

Fromm MF, Maas R, Tümena T, et al. Eur J Clin Pharmacol. 2013;69(4):975-84.

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In this retrospective study, approximately 26% of patients discharged from a geriatric unit were treated with at least one potentially inappropriate medication.

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