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Prescriber variation in potentially inappropriate prescribing in older populations in Ireland |
Cahir, Caitriona; Fahey, Tom; Teljeur, Conor; Bennett, Kathleen
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Health care policy-makers look for prescribing indicators at the population level to evaluate the
performance of prescribers, improve quality and control drug costs. The aim of this research was to; (i) estimate
the level of variation in potentially inappropriate prescribing (PIP) across prescribers in the national Irish older
population using the STOPP criteria; (ii) estimate how reliably the criteria could distinguish between prescribers
in terms of their proportion of PIP and; (iii) examine how PIP varies between prescribers and by patient and
prescriber characteristics in a multilevel regression model.
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Keyword(s):
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PRESCRIBING; OLDER PEOPLE |
Publication Date:
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2014 |
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Type:
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Journal article |
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Peer-Reviewed:
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Unknown |
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Language(s):
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English |
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Institution:
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Lenus |
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Publisher(s):
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BMC Family Practice |
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Related Link(s):
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http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2296/15/59 |
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First Indexed:
2014-04-11 06:41:40 Last Updated:
2017-05-12 07:21:36 |
