Patient- and clinic visit-related factors associated with potentially inappropriate medication use among older home healthcare service recipients.

OBJECTIVES: Taiwanese National Health Insurance (TNHI) provides home healthcare services to patients with skilled nursing needs who were homebound or lived in nursing homes. Studies on potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs) for older home healthcare service recipients (HHSRs) are growing, but...

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Main Authors: Chirn-Bin Chang, Hsiu-Yun Lai, Shu-Yu Yang, Ru-Shu Wu, Hsing-Cheng Liu, Hsiu-Ying Hsu, Shinn-Jang Hwang, Ding-Cheng Chan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3983120?pdf=render