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Publication year: 2010
Source: The American Journal of Geriatric Pharmacotherapy, Volume 8, Issue 1, February 2010, Pages 77-83

Zachary A., Marcum , Steven M., Handler , Richard, Boyce , Walid, Gellad , Joseph T., Hanlon

Objective: This paper reviews recent articles examining medication misadventures that can be defined as medication errors and adverse drug events in the elderly.Methods: MEDLINE and International Pharmaceutical Abstracts were searched for articles published in English in 2009 using a combination of the terms medication errors, medication adherence, suboptimal prescribing, monitoring, adverse drug events, adverse drug withdrawal events, therapeutic failure, and aged. A manual search of the reference lists of the identified articles and the authors’ article files, book chapters, and recent reviews was conducted to identify additional publications. Those studies that described unique approaches to evaluating medication misadventures in the…

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