Effects of pharmacists' interventions on appropriateness of prescribing and evaluation of the instruments' (MAI, STOPP and STARTs') ability to predict hospitalization--analyses from a randomized controlled trial.

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Published in PLoS One on May 17, 2013

Authors

Ulrika Gillespie1, Anna Alassaad, Margareta Hammarlund-Udenaes, Claes Mörlin, Dan Henrohn, Maria Bertilsson, Håkan Melhus

Author Affiliations

1: Division of Pharmacokinetics and Drug Therapy, Department of Pharmaceutical Biosciences, Uppsala University and Uppsala University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden. Ulrika.gillespie@akademiska.se

Associated clinical trials:

Optimizing Drug-Therapy in Patients 80 Years and Older | NCT00661310

The Influence of Clinical Pharmacist on the Quality of Drug Prescribing and Rehabilitation Outcomes in Post-acute Hip Fractured Patients | NCT04360746

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