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INTERNAL MEDICINE JOURNAL
Volume 37, Issue 6, Pages 402-405Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-5994.2007.01316.x
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Beers criteria; adverse drug event; potentially inappropriate medicine; elderly; prescribing
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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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