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Can clinical pharmacy services have a positive impact on drug-related problems and health outcomes in community-based older adults?Joseph T Hanlon
Division of Geriatric Medicine, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Am J Geriatr Pharmacother 2:3-13. 2004....- Essentials of prescribing in the era of the Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization ActJoseph T Hanlon
Division of Geriatric Medicine, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
Am J Geriatr Pharmacother 3:123-6. 2005 
Central nervous system medication use and incident mobility limitation in community elders: the Health, Aging, and Body Composition studyRobert M Boudreau
Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 18:916-22. 2009..To evaluate whether CNS medication use in older adults was associated with a higher risk of future incident mobility limitation...- Potential underuse, overuse, and inappropriate use of antidepressants in older veteran nursing home residentsJoseph T Hanlon
Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center, and Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Health System, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 59:1412-20. 2011..To examine prevalence and resident- and site-level factors associated with potential underuse, overuse, and inappropriate use of antidepressants in older Veterans Affairs (VA) Community Living Center (CLC) residents... - Prevalence of unplanned hospitalizations caused by adverse drug reactions in older veteransZachary A Marcum
Departments of Geriatrics, School of Pharmacy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 60:34-41. 2012.... - Provider management of and satisfaction with laboratory testing in the nursing home setting: results of a national internet-based surveyBrian H Shirts
School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
J Am Med Dir Assoc 10:161-166.e3. 2009..To describe the management of and satisfaction with laboratory testing, and desirability of laboratory health information technology in the nursing home setting... - A cross-sectional analysis of the prevalence of undertreatment of nonpain symptoms and factors associated with undertreatment in older nursing home hospice/palliative care patientsKeri L Rodriguez
Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Healthcare System, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Am J Geriatr Pharmacother 8:225-32. 2010..Currently, there is limited information on nonpain symptoms and their appropriate treatment in this setting at the end of life... - Consensus list of signals to detect potential adverse drug reactions in nursing homesSteven M Handler
Division of Geriatric Medicine, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 56:808-15. 2008..To develop a consensus list of agreed-upon laboratory, pharmacy, and Minimum Data Set signals that a computer system can use in the nursing home to detect potential adverse drug reactions (ADRs)... - A review of the effectiveness of antidepressant medications for depressed nursing home residentsRichard D Boyce
Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
J Am Med Dir Assoc 13:326-31. 2012..Despite a significant increase in the rate of antidepressant prescribing over the past several decades, little is known about the effectiveness of these agents in the NH population... - Number and dosage of central nervous system medications on recurrent falls in community elders: the Health, Aging and Body Composition studyJoseph T Hanlon
Department of Medicine, Geriatrics, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 64:492-8. 2009..The study objective was to evaluate whether multiple- or high-dose CNS medication use in older adults was associated with a higher risk of recurrent (>or=2) falls... - Effect of central nervous system medication use on decline in cognition in community-dwelling older adults: findings from the Health, Aging And Body Composition StudyRollin M Wright
Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 57:243-50. 2009..To evaluate whether combined use of multiple central nervous system (CNS) medications over time is associated with cognitive change... - Facility-level variation in potentially inappropriate prescribing for older veteransWalid F Gellad
Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Healthcare System, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15206, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 60:1222-9. 2012.... - Underuse of indicated medications among physically frail older US veterans at the time of hospital discharge: results of a cross-sectional analysis of data from the Geriatric Evaluation and Management Drug StudyRollin M Wright
Division of Geriatric Medicine, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Am J Geriatr Pharmacother 7:271-80. 2009..Medication underutilization, or the omission of a potentially beneficial medication indicated for disease management, is common among older adults but poorly understood... - The effect of medication use on urinary incontinence in community-dwelling elderly womenChristine M Ruby
Department of Pharmacy and Therapeutics, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 58:1715-20. 2010..To evaluate whether use of certain medications with potential urological effects is associated with development of incident urinary incontinence in community-resident older women... - Do geriatric conditions increase risk of adverse drug reactions in ambulatory elders? Results from the VA GEM Drug StudyMichael A Steinman
Division of Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, and San Francisco VA Medical Center, San Francisco, CA 94121, USA
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 66:444-51. 2011..Many clinicians prescribe cautiously to older adults with common geriatric conditions for fear of causing adverse drug reactions (ADRs). However, little is known about the association between these conditions and risk of ADRs... 
Impact of a geriatric nursing home palliative care service on unnecessary medication prescribingErin M Suhrie
Pharmacy Department, VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Am J Geriatr Pharmacother 7:20-5. 2009..There is a lack of studies concerning improvement of medication use in palliative care patients in nursing homes...- Year in review: medication mishaps in the elderlyEmily P Peron
Division of Geriatric Medicine, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
Am J Geriatr Pharmacother 9:1-10. 2011..This paper reviews articles from 2010 that examined medication mishaps (ie, medication errors and adverse drug events [ADEs]) in the elderly... - Potentially inappropriate prescribing of primarily renally cleared medications for older veterans affairs nursing home patientsJoseph T Hanlon
Division of Geriatric Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
J Am Med Dir Assoc 12:377-83. 2011..Inappropriate prescribing of primarily renally cleared medications in older patients with kidney disease can lead to adverse outcomes... - Analgesic use for knee and hip osteoarthritis in community-dwelling eldersZachary A Marcum
Department of Medicine Geriatrics, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Pain Med 12:1628-36. 2011..To examine the prevalence and correlates of non-opioid and opioid analgesic use and descriptively evaluate potential undertreatment in a sample of community-dwelling elders with symptomatic knee and/or hip osteoarthritis (OA)... - Pain and its treatment in older nursing home hospice/palliative care residentsJoseph T Hanlon
Division of Geriatric Medicine, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
J Am Med Dir Assoc 11:579-83. 2010.... - What types of inappropriate prescribing predict adverse drug reactions in older adults?Joseph T Hanlon
Department of Medicine Geriatrics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Ann Pharmacother 44:1110-1. 2010..Besides discussing the strengths and weaknesses of this article, we also recommend future research directions in this area... - Polypharmacy and health beliefs in older outpatientsMichelle I Rossi
Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center, Pittsburgh VAMC, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
Am J Geriatr Pharmacother 5:317-23. 2007..Patient-related characteristics and beliefs have not been the focus of prior research in this area, which has primarily evaluated the effects of patients' health status and health care system factors... - Medication use and functional status decline in older adults: a narrative reviewEmily P Peron
Division of Geriatric Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Am J Geriatr Pharmacother 9:378-91. 2011..A decline in function can increase health care use, worsen quality of life, threaten independence, and increase the risk of mortality. One of several risk factors for decline in functional status is medication use... - Impact of Medicare Part D on antidepressant treatment, medication choice, and adherence among older adults with depressionJulie M Donohue
Department of Health Policy and Management, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, USA
Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 19:989-97. 2011..Depression in older adults is often undertreated due, in part, to medication costs. We examined the impact of improved prescription drug coverage under Medicare Part D on use of antidepressants, medication choice, and adherence... - Prevalence of potentially preventable unplanned hospitalizations caused by therapeutic failures and adverse drug withdrawal events among older veteransZachary A Marcum
Department of Medicine Geriatrics, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, 3471 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 67:867-74. 2012..Conclusions. TF-related unplanned hospitalizations occur more frequently than ADWE-related admissions among older Veterans. Almost all TFs and/or ADWEs are potentially preventable... - Frequency of laboratory monitoring of chronic medications administered to nursing facility residents: results of a national Internet-based studySteven M Handler
Department of Medicine, Division of Geriatric Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Consult Pharm 23:387-95. 2008.... - Interventions to improve suboptimal prescribing in nursing homes: A narrative reviewZachary A Marcum
Department of Medicine Geriatrics, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Am J Geriatr Pharmacother 8:183-200. 2010..Appropriate medication prescribing for nursing home residents remains a challenge... - Appropriateness of antibiotic prescribing in veterans with community-acquired pneumonia, sinusitis, or acute exacerbations of chronic bronchitis: a cross-sectional studyColleen Cook Tobia
Department of Pharmacy, Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Healthcare System, School of Pharmacy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15240 1000, USA
Clin Ther 30:1135-44. 2008.... - Identifying modifiable barriers to medication error reporting in the nursing home settingSteven M Handler
Division of Geriatric Medicine, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
J Am Med Dir Assoc 8:568-74. 2007..To have health care professionals in nursing homes identify organizational-level and individual-level modifiable barriers to medication error reporting... - Results of a longitudinal analysis of national data to examine relationships between organizational and market characteristics and changes in antipsychotic prescribing in US nursing homes from 1996 through 2006Nicholas G Castle
Department of Health Policy and Management, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
Am J Geriatr Pharmacother 7:143-50. 2009..The aim of this work was to examine the association between organizational characteristics, market characteristics, and changes in antipsychotic medication use in US nursing homes over time... - Medication misadventures in the elderly: a year in reviewZachary A Marcum
Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
Am J Geriatr Pharmacother 8:77-83. 2010..This paper reviews recent articles examining medication misadventures that can be defined as medication errors and adverse drug events in the elderly... - Polypharmacy in elderly patientsEmily R Hajjar
Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
Am J Geriatr Pharmacother 5:345-51. 2007..Polypharmacy (ie, the use of multiple medications and/or the administration of more medications than are clinically indicated, representing unnecessary drug use) is common among the elderly... - Antidepressant prescribing in US nursing homes between 1996 and 2006 and its relationship to staffing patterns and use of other psychotropic medicationsJoseph T Hanlon
Division of Geriatric Medicine, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
J Am Med Dir Assoc 11:320-4. 2010..Few studies have examined factors associated with antidepressant prescribing in older nursing home residents... - Incidence and predictors of all and preventable adverse drug reactions in frail elderly persons after hospital stayJoseph T Hanlon
Department of Medicine Geriatrics, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, and Center for Health Equity Research, Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Healthcare System, PA 15213, USA
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 61:511-5. 2006..This study examines the incidence and predictors of all and preventable ADRs in frail elderly persons after hospital discharge, a highly vulnerable but rarely studied population... - Central nervous system-active medications and risk for falls in older womenKristine E Ensrud
Department of Medicine, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 50:1629-37. 2002..To determine whether current use of central nervous system (CNS)-active medications, including benzodiazepines, antidepressants, anticonvulsants, and narcotics, increases the risk for subsequent falls... - Age-related changes in antidepressant pharmacokinetics and potential drug-drug interactions: a comparison of evidence-based literature and package insert informationRichard D Boyce
Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Am J Geriatr Pharmacother 10:139-50. 2012..Little is known about the best source of pharmacotherapy information to consult about key factors necessary to safely prescribe these medications to older patients... - A systematic review of the performance characteristics of clinical event monitor signals used to detect adverse drug events in the hospital settingSteven M Handler
Department of Medicine, Division of Geriatric Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, 3471 Fifth Ave, Suite 500, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
J Am Med Inform Assoc 14:451-8. 2007..The objective of this study was to conduct a systematic review of pharmacy and laboratory signals used by clinical event monitors to detect ADEs in hospitalized adults... - Assessing the quality of prescribing and monitoring erythropoiesis-stimulating agents in the nursing home settingAn Kwok I Wong
Department of Biomedical Informatics, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
J Am Med Dir Assoc 10:436-9. 2009..The objectives of this study were to determine the prevalence and appropriateness of prescribing and monitoring of erythropoiesis-stimulating agents (ESAs) used to treat anemia in the NH setting... - Medication errors in older adults: a review of recent publicationsSherrie Aspinall
Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Healthcare System, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Am J Geriatr Pharmacother 5:75-84. 2007..This paper reviews recent articles examining medication errors in the elderly... - The Medicare drug benefit (Part D) and treatment of heart failure in older adultsJulie M Donohue
Department of Health Policy and Management, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
Am Heart J 160:159-65. 2010..We examined the impact of improvements in drug coverage under Medicare Part D on utilization of, and adherence to, medications for heart failure in older adults... - Sources of regional variation in Medicare Part D drug spendingJulie M Donohue
Department of Health Policy and Management, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
N Engl J Med 366:530-8. 2012.... - Consensus guidelines for oral dosing of primarily renally cleared medications in older adultsJoseph T Hanlon
Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 57:335-40. 2009..To establish consensus oral dosing guidelines for primarily renally cleared medications prescribed for older adults... - A brief, intensive, clinically focused geriatrics course during the third year of medical schoolAlfred L Fisher
Department of Medicine, Division of Geriatric Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 57:524-9. 2009..It was found that even this brief exposure to geriatrics could have meaningful effects on student knowledge of and comfort with geriatrics... - Epidemiology of medication-related adverse events in nursing homesSteven M Handler
Division of Geriatric Medicine, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
Am J Geriatr Pharmacother 4:264-72. 2006.... - Relationship of race/ethnicity and blood pressure to change in cognitive functionArline D Bohannon
Department of Medicine, Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 50:424-9. 2002..Although a similar but muted nonsignificant association was found in older African Americans, the curves for the two groups were not significantly different. Further studies in older African Americans are needed... - Helping Medicare patients benefit from the new Medicare drug benefit: an overview with practice tipsJulie Donohue
Department of Health Policy and Management, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
Am J Geriatr Cardiol 14:291-7. 2005.... - Self-care and professionally guided care in osteoarthritis: racial differences in a population-based sampleSteven M Albert
Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, A211 Crabtree, 130 DeSoto St, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
J Aging Health 20:198-216. 2008..Self-management was defined broadly to include all behaviors adopted to reduce morbidity, whether recommended by physicians or not... - Inappropriate medication use among frail elderly inpatientsJoseph T Hanlon
Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, MN 55455, USA
Ann Pharmacother 38:9-14. 2004..Inappropriate prescribing in frail elderly inpatients has not received as much investigation as in frail elderly nursing home patients... - Effects of geriatric evaluation and management on adverse drug reactions and suboptimal prescribing in the frail elderlyKenneth E Schmader
Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA
Am J Med 116:394-401. 2004..To determine if inpatient or outpatient geriatric evaluation and management, as compared with usual care, reduces adverse drug reactions and suboptimal prescribing in frail elderly patients... - Potential drug-disease interactions in frail, hospitalized elderly veteransCatherine I Lindblad
Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology and Institute for the Study of Geriatric Pharmacotherapy, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, 308 Harvard Street, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Ann Pharmacother 39:412-7. 2005..Drugs can improve quality of life for many older people, but they may cause adverse health outcomes (eg, drug-disease interactions) if used inappropriately... - Laxative use in the community-dwelling elderlyChristine M Ruby
Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development, Durham, North Carolina, USA
Am J Geriatr Pharmacother 1:11-7. 2003..Studies are needed that examine the impact of laxative use on bowel function and quality of life in the elderly... - Unnecessary drug use in frail older people at hospital dischargeEmily R Hajjar
Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 53:1518-23. 2005..To determine the prevalence and predictors of unnecessary drug use at hospital discharge in frail elderly patients... - Clinically important drug-disease interactions and their prevalence in older adultsCatherine I Lindblad
Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, 308 Harvard Street SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 0353, USA
Clin Ther 28:1133-43. 2006..Older adults may have decreased homeostatic reserve, have multiple chronic diseases, and take multiple medications. Therefore, they are at risk for adverse outcomes after receiving a drug that exacerbates a chronic disease... - Therapeutic failure-related hospitalisations in the frail elderlyRobert M Kaiser
Miller School of Medicine, Division of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine and Geriatrics Institute, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, USA
Drugs Aging 23:579-86. 2006..Further research on the occurrence, risk factors for and types of therapeutic failure is needed in a larger cohort of older non-veterans... - Racial and ethnic disparities in medication use among older adultsGerda G Fillenbaum
Am J Geriatr Pharmacother 4:93-5. 2006 - Assessing potentially inappropriate prescribing in the elderly Veterans Affairs population using the HEDIS 2006 quality measureMary Jo V Pugh
South Texas Veterans Health Care System, VERDICT, Audie L Murphy Division 11C6, 7400 Merton Minter Blvd, San Antonio, TX 78229 4404, USA
J Manag Care Pharm 12:537-45. 2006..The resulting list of drugs to avoid was added to the 2006 Health Plan Employer Data and Information Set (HEDIS) to measure the quality of prescribing for the elderly... - Impact of inappropriate drug use on health services utilization among representative older community-dwelling residentsGerda G Fillenbaum
Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
Am J Geriatr Pharmacother 2:92-101. 2004..There is limited objective information regarding the impact of drugs identified as inappropriate by drug utilization review (DUR) or the Beers drugs-to-avoid criteria on health service use... - Falls in African American and white community-dwelling elderly residentsJoseph T Hanlon
College of Pharmacy Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455, USA
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 57:M473-8. 2002.... - Central nervous system active medications and risk for fractures in older womenKristine E Ensrud
Department of Medicine and Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research, VA Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN 55417, USA
Arch Intern Med 163:949-57. 2003..Use of central nervous system (CNS) active medications may increase the risk for fractures. Prior studies are limited by incomplete control of confounders... - Use of inappropriate prescription drugs by older peopleJoseph T Hanlon
Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, Division of Health Services Research and Policy, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 55455, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 50:26-34. 2002..Longitudinal studies in older people are needed to examine the impact of inappropriate drug prescribing on health-related outcomes... - Antidiabetic drug therapy of African-American and white community-dwelling elderly over a 10-year periodCatherine I Lindblad
College of Pharmacy, Institute for the Study of Geriatric Pharmacotherapy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 51:1748-53. 2003..To determine the prevalence and predictors of antidiabetic medication use over a 10-year period in a general population of African-American and white community-dwelling elderly... - Use of antibacterial drugs in community-dwelling older personsDavid R P Guay
J Am Geriatr Soc 51:1819-21. 2003 - Dementia and Alzheimer's disease in community-dwelling elders taking vitamin C and/or vitamin EGerda G Fillenbaum
Duke University Medical Center and Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
Ann Pharmacother 39:2009-14. 2005..Since increased oxidative stress may impair cognition and be a risk factor for dementia, there has been interest in determining whether use of antioxidants could protect against such events... - Medication use and control of urination among community-dwelling older adultsChristine M Ruby
Duke University Medical Center, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, University of North Carolina, USA
J Aging Health 17:661-74. 2005..05) between use of any medication with UA and reported urinary difficulty (Adj. OR = 1.31, 95% CI = 1.05-1.62). DISCUSSION: Medications with UA may be related to difficulty in controlling urine among community-dwelling elderly women... - Drug-drug interactions in older adults: which ones matter?Joseph T Hanlon
Am J Geriatr Pharmacother 3:61-3. 2005 - Impact of inappropriate drug use on mortality and functional status in representative community dwelling eldersJoseph T Hanlon
Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Med Care 40:166-76. 2002..The predictive validity of Drug Utilization Review (DUR) and drugs-to-avoid criteria in elders is unknown... - Adverse drug reaction risk factors in older outpatientsEmily R Hajjar
Institute for the Study of Geriatric Pharmacotherapy and the Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Am J Geriatr Pharmacother 1:82-9. 2003..Identifying a uniform set of risk factors would be helpful to develop risk models for ADRs for older outpatients and to implement targeted interventions for those patients at high risk for ADRs... - Update on drug-related problems in the elderlyJoseph T Hanlon
Institute for the Study of Geriatric Pharmacotherapy, Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Am J Geriatr Pharmacother 1:38-43. 2003..Although pharmacotherapy for the elderly can treat diseases and improve well-being, its benefits can be compromised by drug-related problems... - Is antioxidant use protective of cognitive function in the community-dwelling elderly?Shelly L Gray
School of Pharmacy, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
Am J Geriatr Pharmacother 1:3-10. 2003..Thus, there is considerable interest in the potential contribution of antioxidants to the prevention of these diseases... - Histamine2 receptor antagonist use and decline in cognitive function among community dwelling elderlyJoseph T Hanlon
Institute for the Study of Geriatric Pharmacotherapy, College of Pharmacy, 7 115 Weaver Densford Hall, University of Minnesota, 308 Harvard Street, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 13:781-7. 2004..This study evaluated the relationship between the use of histamine(2) receptor antagonists and cognitive decline among community dwelling elderly... - Appropriate prescribing in elderly people: how well can it be measured and optimised?Anne Spinewine
Center for Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium
Lancet 370:173-84. 2007....