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Potentially inappropriate prescribing among Australian veterans and war widows/widowers
Author(s) -
Roughead E. E.,
Anderson B.,
Gilbert A. L.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
internal medicine journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.596
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1445-5994
pISSN - 1444-0903
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-5994.2007.01316.x
Subject(s) - medicine , pharmaceutical benefits scheme , oxybutynin , pharmacy , veterans affairs , repatriation , family medicine , doxepin , medical prescription , alternative medicine , pharmacology , overactive bladder , history , archaeology , pathology
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.