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Inappropriate Prescribing in the Hospitalized Elderly Patient

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The medication use process is a varied and complex progression of steps that begin with prescribing from a health care provider to communicating orders to a nurse or pharmacist, dispensing by a pharmacist, and administering either by a patient’s caregiver or the patient (Institute of Medicine 1999; Page et al. 2010).

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Robert Lee Page 2nd., Ruscin, J.M. (2013). Inappropriate Prescribing in the Hospitalized Elderly Patient. In: Wehling, M. (eds) Drug Therapy for the Elderly. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-0912-0_27

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