A New Computer-Based Tool to Reduce Potentially Inappropriate Prescriptions in Hospitalized Geriatric Patients

Anna Maria Grion,Umberto Gallo,Daniel Dumitru Tinjala,Julia Daragjati,Michele Loreggian,Giovanna Cardaci,Arduino A. Mangoni,Alberto Pilotto

A New Computer-Based Tool to Reduce Potentially Inappropriate Prescriptions in Hospitalized Geriatric Patients

2016

Anna Maria Grion
Umberto Gallo
Daniel Dumitru Tinjala
Julia Daragjati
Michele Loreggian
Giovanna Cardaci
Arduino A. Mangoni
Alberto Pilotto

Background Potentially inappropriate prescriptions (PIPs), associated with adverse drug reactions, hospitalization, and wasteful healthcare spending, are common in elderly patients with comorbidities and multiple drugs.

Keywords:

Intensive care medicine
Comorbidity
Physical therapy
Inappropriate Prescriptions
Health care
Drug
Diabetes mellitus
Pharmacology
Cohort study
Medicine
pharmacology toxicology
computer based
Pharmacotherapy
drug reaction

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