Medicine use in high fall risk versus low fall risk patients, hospitalised in an orthopaedic clinic

• In: Hospital Pharmacy - Posters
• At: Istanbul (Turkey) (2009)
• Type: Poster
• Poster code: HPS-P-039
• By: WESTERLUND, Tommy (Apoteket AB and University of Gothenburg, Helsingborg and Göteborg, Sweden)
• Co-author(s): Jogby, Martina (Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden)
  Kragh, Annika (Kristianstad Hospital, Kristianstad, Sweden)
  
• Abstract:

  Introduction: Falls among elderly cause much suffering and high societal costs. The risk of falling increases with the use of fall-risk-increasing drugs (FRIDs). Aims: To examine (1) differences in medicine use in high fall risk versus low fall risk patients, hospitalised in an orthopaedic clinic, (2) how often the documentation of FRIDs was

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