Prescription pattern and prevalence of potentially inappropriate medications among elderly patients in a Nigerian rural tertiary hospital | Zendy

Joseph Fadare | Zendy; Agboola | Zendy; Opeke | Zendy; Alabi | Zendy

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Prescription pattern and prevalence of potentially inappropriate medications among elderly patients in a Nigerian rural tertiary hospital

Author(s) -

Joseph Fadare,

Agboola,

Opeke,

Alabi

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

therapeutics and clinical risk management

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.719

H-Index - 55

eISSN - 1178-203X

pISSN - 1176-6336

DOI - 10.2147/tcrm.s40120

Subject(s) - medicine , medical prescription , intensive care medicine , family medicine , traditional medicine , pediatrics , emergency medicine , pharmacology

Polypharmacy and inappropriate prescriptions are prominent prescribing issues with elderly patients. Beers criteria and other guidelines have been developed to assist in the reduction of potentially inappropriate medications prescribed to elderly patients. The objectives of this study were to assess the prescribing pattern for elderly Nigerian outpatients and estimate the prevalence of potentially inappropriate medications among them using the Beers criteria.

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