Potentially inappropriate medication on communitydwelling older adults: Longitudinal analysis using the International Mobility in Aging Study.

Edison Pineda Alejandra Fernández Carmen-Lucía Curcio Juliana Fernandes de Souza Barbosa Afshin Vafaei José Fernando Gómez

Published in: Biomedica : revista del Instituto Nacional de Salud (2024)

About half of the population of the community-dwelling older adults had prescriptions of potentially inappropriate medications in a sustained manner and without significant variability over time. Mainly potentially inappropriate medications were gastrointestinal and cardiovascular drugs, analgesics, delirium-related drugs, and benzodiazepines.

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