Potentially Inappropriate Medications and Risk of Hospitalization in Retirees Analysis of a US Retiree Health Claims Database
Potentially Inappropriate Medications and Risk of Hospitalization in Retirees Analysis of a US Retiree Health Claims Database
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DOI：
10.2165/11315990-000000000-00000
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发表时间：
2010-01-01
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影响因子：
2.8
通讯作者：
Hanlon, Joseph
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作者：
Albert, Steven M.;Colombi, Alberto;Hanlon, Joseph
背景和目的：老年人不适当用药的一个重要健康后果是住院风险。我们研究了这种关系超过3年的退休人员的健康索赔数据库，以确定这种关联的强度，使用其他定义的潜在不适当的medications.Methods：处方和住院索赔的美国退休人员从一个单一的大公司进行了检查，在3年的时间，2003-5。清除非雇员（家属、配偶）、雇员年龄
Background and Objective: One important health outcome of inappropriate medication use in the elderly is risk of hospitalization. We examined this relationship over 3 years in a retiree health claims database to determine the strength of this association using alternative definitions of potentially inappropriate medications.Methods: Prescription and hospitalization claims for US retirees from a single large corporation were examined over the 3-year period, 2003-5. Purging the database of non-employees (dependents, spouses), employees aged