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Inappropriate prescribing among ambulatory elderly patients in a geriatric centre in Southwestern Nigeria
0.05. Results: Mean age of patients was 69 ± 0.4 years (range 60-85 years) and 219 (65.4%) were females. An average of 4.2 medications per patient prescription was found. The Beers criteria identified 26.5% PIMs, while STOPP criteria identified 57.1% PIMs. START detected 29 PPOs in 15 (4.4%) of the...
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