Abstract:Background
The problem of overprescribing and failure to provide appropriate medicines in elderly people has been associated with hospitalisation.
Purpose
To analyse Inappropriate Prescribing (IP) and Prescribing Omissions (PO) in elderly patients in an attempt to find a link with said patients’ hospitalisation.
Materials and methods
Retrospective observational study from June to August 2013 with patients admitted to the Internal Medicine Unit in a tertiary hospital. We included patients ≥65 with at least … Show more
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