Advanced Age and Medication Prescription: More Years, Less Medications? A Nationwide Report From the Italian Medicines Agency

Graziano Onder; Alessandra Marengoni; Pierluigi Russo; Luca Degli Esposti; Massimo Fini; Alessandro Monaco; Stefano Bonassi; Katie Palmer; Walter Marrocco; Giuseppe Pozzi; Diego Sangiorgi; Stefano Buda; Niccolò Marchionni; Federica Mammarella; Roberto Bernabei; Luca Pani; Sergio Pecorelli

doi:10.1016/j.jamda.2015.08.009

Advanced Age and Medication Prescription: More Years, Less Medications? A Nationwide Report From the Italian Medicines Agency

Graziano Onder
, Alessandra Marengoni
, Pierluigi Russo
, Luca Degli Esposti
, Massimo Fini
, Alessandro Monaco
, Stefano Bonassi
, Katie Palmer
, Walter Marrocco
, Giuseppe Pozzi
, Diego Sangiorgi
, Stefano Buda
, Niccolò Marchionni
, Federica Mammarella
, Roberto Bernabei
, Luca Pani
, Sergio Pecorelli

University of Brescia
Agenzia Italiana del Farmaco
Economics and Outcome Research
IRCCS San Raffaele Pisana - Roma
University of Florence

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Abstract

In older adults co-occurrence of multiple diseases often leads to use of multiple medications (polypharmacy). The aim of the present study is to describe how prescription of medications varies across age groups, with specific focus on the oldest old.

Lingua originale	Inglese
pagine (da-a)	1-5
Numero di pagine	5
Rivista	Journal of the American Medical Directors Association
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2015.08.009
Stato di pubblicazione	Pubblicato - 2015

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Prescribing
end of life
polypharmacy

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Onder, G., Marengoni, A., Russo, P., Degli Esposti, L., Fini, M., Monaco, A., Bonassi, S., Palmer, K., Marrocco, W., Pozzi, G., Sangiorgi, D., Buda, S., Marchionni, N., Mammarella, F., Bernabei, R., Pani, L., & Pecorelli, S. (2015). Advanced Age and Medication Prescription: More Years, Less Medications? A Nationwide Report From the Italian Medicines Agency. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2015.08.009

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Advanced Age and Medication Prescription: More Years, Less Medications? A Nationwide Report From the Italian Medicines Agency

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