| Title |
Medication transitions and polypharmacy in older adults following acute care
|
|---|---|
| Published in |
Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management, March 2014
|
| DOI | 10.2147/tcrm.s58707 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
John-Michael Gamble, Jill J Hall, Thomas J Marrie, Cheryl A Sadowski, Sumit R Majumdar, Dean T Eurich |
| Abstract |
Medication changes at transitions of care and polypharmacy are growing concerns that adversely impact optimal drug use. We aimed to describe transitions and patterns of medication use before and 1 year after older patients were hospitalized for community-acquired pneumonia, the second-most common reason for admission in North America. |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Ireland | 1 | 1% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 69 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 15 | 21% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 7 | 10% |
| Student > Master | 7 | 10% |
| Student > Bachelor | 7 | 10% |
| Other | 5 | 7% |
| Other | 8 | 11% |
| Unknown | 22 | 31% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 18 | 25% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 7 | 10% |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 6 | 8% |
| Psychology | 2 | 3% |
| Social Sciences | 2 | 3% |
| Other | 9 | 13% |
| Unknown | 27 | 38% |
Attention Score in Context
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#7,355,485
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#379
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#66,101
of 236,365 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management
#6
of 25 outputs
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