August 1, 1979Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Drug Use in a Geriatric Population

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1,711 geriatric patients visiting a clinic for a hypertension-screening program over three successive years

Design

Cross-sectional

Authors

WHWilliam E. HaleUniversity of Southern California RMRonald G. MarksTulane University RSRonald B. StewartCampbell University

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Implication

Reinforces polypharmacy assessment in geriatric cardiology; leaves open effects on outcomes.

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Population

1,711 geriatric patients visiting a clinic for a hypertension-screening program over three successive years

Outcome

Drug usage patterns, including percentage of patients regularly using a drug preparation and average number of drug categories used by age

Polypharmacy is highly prevalent in the geriatric population and increases progressively with age, commonly involving antihypertensive and cardiovascular medications.

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Hale et al. (1979) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a952ea0cd304312aafa6e59 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1532-5415.1979.tb06061.x

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Hypertension management

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