Purpose: Types of medication misunderstanding among community-dwelling elderly people were studied. Methods: Community-dwelling people who were at least 65 years of age and who volunteered to ...

The use of an electronic health record (EHR)–based clinical decision support (CDS) system in emergency departments (EDs) increased adherence to geriatric prescribing recommendations for potentially ...

Taking five or more medications increased the risk of death, hospitalizations and ER visits in elderly patients with colorectal cancer. Recent research found an association between polypharmacy — ...

Understanding the needs of older adults and geriatric medicine could be of real importance as the world's population shifts and the issue impacts more people. Elderly is an age descriptor used to ...

A new report on strategies for geriatric drug development and assessment determined that drugs need to consider age as well as other factors that older adults face such as cognitive impairment, ...

New University of Utah research reveals the potential of medication informatics and DNA drug-sensitivity testing to reduce overall healthcare resource use and costs in elderly patients treated with ...

Cabozantinib in the elderly with metastatic renal cell carcinoma undergoing geriatric G8 screening test: A prospective multicenter observational study (ZEBRA/MEET-URO 9). Warfarin Competition at ...