Characterization of the use and misuse of medications by an elderly, ambulatory population.
Characterization of the use and misuse of medications by an elderly, ambulatory population.
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老年人、流动人口使用和滥用药物的特征。
DOI：
10.1097/00005650-198906000-00008
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发表时间：
1989
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影响因子：
3
通讯作者：
Lazarus,RS
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作者：
Bernstein,LR;Folkman,S;Lazarus,RS
人们提出了许多方法来研究老年人滥用药物的范围和程度。对患者依从性、医生的处方模式以及药物相互作用或药物不良反应的研究集中在药物滥用的个别方面。这项研究有几个明显的特点。首先，滥用被定义为三种功能：(1)药物使用；(2)药物相互作用(包括酒精)；(3)在同一药学类别中过度使用药物。与Rafful等人的类似研究相比，这项研究提供了对正在使用的药物及其与所报告的症状和医疗条件的关系的更详细的检查。其次，除了精神药物外，滥用还包括所有非处方药和处方药和酒精。纳入非精神活性物质的原因
Numerous methodologies have been proposed to study the scope and extent of med-ication misuse by the elderly." Studies of patient compliance," prescribing patterns of physicians," and drug interactions or adverse drug reactions" have focused on in-dividual aspects of drug misuse. The present study has several distinctive features. First, misuse is defined in terms of three functions:(1) drug utilization;(2) drug interactions (including alcohol); and (3) redundant use of drugs in the same pharma-cologic class." This study provides a more detailed inspection of medications being used and their relationship with reported symptomatology and medical conditions than a similar study by Raffoul et al." Second, misuse encompasses all over-thecounter and prescribed drugs and alcohol, in addition to psychoactive drugs. The reason for the inclusion of nonpsychoactive