Appropriateness of psychotropic drug prescriptions in the elderly: structuring tools based on data extracted from the hospital information system to understand physician practices

• Main Authors: Aurélie Petit-Monéger (Author), Vianney Jouhet (Author), Frantz Thiessard (Author), Driss Berdaï (Author), Pernelle Noize (Author), Véronique Gilleron (Author), Guillaume Caridade (Author), Louis-Rachid Salmi (Author), Florence Saillour-Glénisson (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2019-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background The appropriateness of psychotropic prescriptions in the elderly is a major quality-of-care challenge at hospital. Quality indicators have been developed to prevent inappropriate psychotropic prescriptions. We aimed to select and automatically calculate such indicators, from the...