Analysis of drug therapy in the elderly in a municipality in the extreme south of Brazil: prevalence and factors associated with the use of potentially inappropriate drugs
Objective: to identify through the Beers criterion the prevalence of inappropriate medication use by elderly people, and the associated factors. Method: cross-sectional study with 350 people aged 60 years or over, from a municipality in the extreme south of Brazil. Result: the prevalence of drug use...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2022 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP) |
| Repositorio: | Revista Kairós (Online) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/50542 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/kairos/article/view/50542 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Idoso Uso de Medicamentos Critérios de Beers. Critérios de Beers Elderly Use of Medicines Beers criteria Anciano Uso de medicamentos Criterios de Beers |
| Sumario: | Objective: to identify through the Beers criterion the prevalence of inappropriate medication use by elderly people, and the associated factors. Method: cross-sectional study with 350 people aged 60 years or over, from a municipality in the extreme south of Brazil. Result: the prevalence of drug use potentially inappropriate for age was 57.1% and was associated with the presence of potential drug interaction, therapeutic duplicity, polypharmacy, hypertension, diabetes and heart diseases. |
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