Potentially inappropriate prescribing among Australian veterans and war widows/widowers

dc.contributor.author	Roughead, E.E.
dc.contributor.author	Anderson, B.
dc.contributor.author	Gilbert, A.L.
dc.date.issued	2007
dc.description.abstract	This study examined the extent of potentially inappropriate medicine, as defined by explicit criteria, dispensed to Australian veterans using the Repatriation Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme Pharmacy Claims database. Twenty-one per cent of the 192,363 veterans aged 70 years, with an eligible gold card, were dispensed at least one potentially inappropriate medicine in the first 6 months of 2005. Long-acting benzodiazepines, amitriptyline, amiodarone, oxybutynin and doxepin were the medicines most commonly implicated. Strategies to support quality prescribing of medicines to the elderly must include a focus on these medicines.
dc.identifier.citation	Internal Medicine Journal, 2007; 37(6):402-405
dc.identifier.doi	10.1111/j.1445-5994.2007.01316.x
dc.identifier.issn	1444-0903
dc.identifier.issn	1445-5994
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1959.8/48886
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	Blackwell
dc.rights	Copyright status unknown
dc.source.uri	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1445-5994.2007.01316.x
dc.subject	adverse drug event
dc.subject	Beers criteria
dc.subject	elderly
dc.subject	Potentially inappropriate medicine
dc.subject	prescribing
dc.title	Potentially inappropriate prescribing among Australian veterans and war widows/widowers
dc.type	Journal article
pubs.publication-status	Published
ror.mmsid	9915911426501831

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