Medicine—Pharmacy: Review of One Year of Drug Prescribing for the Elderly in a Hospital Clinic

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A chart review of one year of drug prescribing for 163 ambulatory patients ≥ 75 years trated at a university hospital primary care clinic was done. Cardiovascular-renal drugs were the most frequently prescribed, reflecting the high prvalence of circulatory system diseases. The average number of drugs per patient for the year was 4.8 with an average of one of the drugs having potential psychitric effects. About one-fifth of the patients prescribed potassium-depleting diuretics were neither monitored appropriately nor prescribed potassium supplements. Dosage regiment information often was not found in the medical record.