The elderly are high consumers of both prescription and over-the-counter medications. As a result of age-related changes in drug pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, they experience twice the number of adverse effects than in the general population. Using the health insurance data bases of the pro
Anticholinergic delirium: Assessing the role of anticholinergic burden in the elderly
β Scribed by Larry E. Tune
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 100 KB
- Volume
- 2
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1545-8083
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