Potentially inappropriate medications and adverse drug effects in elders in the ED.

Neil Nixdorff; Fredric M. Hustey; Anna K. Brady; Kristina Vaji; Mandy Leonard; Barbara J. Messinger-Rapport

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Potentially inappropriate medications and adverse drug effects in elders in the ED.

July 23, 2008

Nixdorff N, Hustey FM, Brady AK, et al. Am J Emerg Med. 2008;26(6):697-700.

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Approximately one in three elderly patients seen in an urban emergency department was taking at least one potentially inappropriate medication.

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