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Drug Therapy for the Elderly

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Heterogeneity and Vulnerability of Older Patients
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    Chapter 2 Epidemiologic Aspects
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    Chapter 3 Age-Associated General Pharmacological Aspects
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    Chapter 4 Critical Extrapolation of Guidelines and Study Results: Risk-Benefit Assessment for Patients with Reduced Life Expectancy and a New Classification of Drugs According to Their Fitness for the Aged
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    Chapter 5 Inappropriate Medication Use and Medication Errors in the Elderly
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    Chapter 6 Arterial Hypertension
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    Chapter 7 Heart Failure
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    Chapter 8 Coronary Heart Disease and Stroke
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    Chapter 9 Atrial Fibrillation
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    Chapter 10 Diabetes Mellitus
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    Chapter 11 Obstructive Lung Diseases
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    Chapter 12 Osteoporosis
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    Chapter 13 Parkinson’s Disease
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    Chapter 14 Therapy of Chronic Pain
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    Chapter 15 Dementia
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    Chapter 16 Depression
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    Chapter 17 Sleep Disorders
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    Chapter 18 Treatment Decisions and Medical Treatment of Cancer in Elderly Patients
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    Chapter 19 Fall Risk and Pharmacotherapy
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    Chapter 20 Central Nervous System (CNS) Medications and Delirium
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    Chapter 21 Pharmacotherapy and Special Aspects of Cognitive Disorders in the Elderly
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    Chapter 22 Pharmacotherapy and Incontinence
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    Chapter 23 Immobility and Pharmacotherapy
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    Chapter 24 Pharmacotherapy and the Frailty Syndrome
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    Chapter 25 Adherence to Pharmacotherapy in the Elderly
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    Chapter 26 Polypharmacy
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    Chapter 27 Inappropriate Prescribing in the Hospitalized Elderly Patient
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Chapter title
Critical Extrapolation of Guidelines and Study Results: Risk-Benefit Assessment for Patients with Reduced Life Expectancy and a New Classification of Drugs According to Their Fitness for the Aged
Chapter number 4
Book title
Drug Therapy for the Elderly
Published by
Springer, Vienna, January 2013
DOI 10.1007/978-3-7091-0912-0_4
Book ISBNs
978-3-70-910911-3, 978-3-70-910912-0
Authors

Martin Wehling, Wehling, Martin

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 4 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 2 50%
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 25%
Professor 1 25%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 2 50%
Medicine and Dentistry 2 50%