Healthy Skepticism Library item: 10294

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Publication type: Journal Article

Roughead EE, Anderson B, Gilbert AL.
Potentially inappropriate prescribing among Australian veterans and war widows/widowers.
Intern Med J 2007 Jun; 37:(6):402-5
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=17535384

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.

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Publication Types: Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PMID: 17535384 [PubMed - in process]