Safety assessment of essential medicines for elderly people: a bibliographic survey

Certain medicines are considered potentially inappropriate (PIM) for elderly people as they increase the risk of adverse drug events (ADE) and because safer alternative therapies are available on the market. In this context, in order to identify the instruments that assess the quality of medical pre...

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Main Authors: Fabiana Rossi Varallo, Fernanda Mariana de Oliveira, Patrícia de Carvalho Mastroianni
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo 2014-04-01
Series:Brazilian Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1984-82502014000200269&lng=en&tlng=en