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Prescribing Potentially Inappropriate Psychotropic Medications to the Ambulatory Elderly

Author(s) -

J R Mort,

Rajender R. Aparasu

Publication year - 2000

Publication title -

archives of internal medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1538-3679

pISSN - 0003-9926

DOI - 10.1001/archinte.160.18.2825

Subject(s) - medicine , psychotropic agent , medical prescription , ambulatory , psychotropic drug , medicaid , ambulatory care , polypharmacy , disease , antipsychotic , drug class , psychiatry , health care , drug , intensive care medicine , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , pharmacology , economics , economic growth

Psychotropic agents account for 23% to 51% of all inappropriate medications prescribed based on 1991 inappropriate medication criteria for nursing home residents. The criteria were revised to apply to all people older than 65 years. This study used the revised criteria in ambulatory settings to quantify potentially inappropriate prescription of psychotropic agents and identify associated characteristics.

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