Assessing the Medicines Use in the Elderly: A New Approach to Promote Rational Medicine Use in this Group

• Main Authors: Fatemeh Soleymani (Author), Nikinaz Ashrafi (Author), Arash Tehrani-banihashemi (Author), Nooshin Mohammad-Hosseini (Author), Fariba Ahmadizar (Author), Kheirollah Gholami (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Tehran University of Medical Sciences, 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Elderly are prone to many acute and chronic age-related diseases, which needed multiple medicine usage. Therefore, evaluation of medicine use pattern in this group is very important and a significant issue in public health system policy. Methods: This study was a cross-sectional househol...