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.

Appropriateness of prescribing can be assessed by various measures and screening instruments. The aims of this study were to investigate the effects of pharmacists' interventions on appropriateness of prescribing in elderly patients, and to explore the relationship between these results and hos...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ulrika Gillespie, Anna Alassaad, Margareta Hammarlund-Udenaes, Claes Mörlin, Dan Henrohn, Maria Bertilsson, Håkan Melhus
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3656885?pdf=render