Drug utilization patterns among elderly hospitalized patients on poly-pharmacy in Punjab, Pakistan.

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Drug utilization patterns among elderly hospitalized patients on poly-pharmacy in Punjab, Pakistan.

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BackgroundReports from drug utilization reviews are important tools employed in the assessment of healthcare practices. The objective of this study was to evaluate drug utilization patterns among elderly hospitalized patients on poly-pharmacy regimens in Pakistan.MethodsA descriptive, non-experimental, cross-sectional study was carried out from December 2015 to March 2016 in six tertiary-care hospitals in the Punjab province of Pakistan. The population under study were patients aged ≥60 years...

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2017-01

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Sarwar, Muhammad Rehan / Atif, Muhammad / Scahill, Shane / Saqib, Anum / Qamar-Uz-Zaman, Muhammad / Babar, Zaheer

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https://hdl.handle.net/2292/65267

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Drug use / Drug utilization pattern / Elderly / Hospitalized / Poly-pharmacy / 32 Biomedical and Clinical Sciences / 4205 Nursing / 42 Health Sciences / Aging / 6.1 Pharmaceuticals / 6 Evaluation of treatments and therapeutic interventions / 1115 Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences / Health services & systems / Patient Safety

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