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. 2011 Jun 13;171(11):1032-4.
doi: 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.233.

Inappropriate medications in elderly ICU survivors: where to intervene?

Alessandro Morandi  1 , Eduard E Vasilevskis, Pratik P Pandharipande, Timothy D Girard, Laurence M Solberg, Erin B Neal, Tyler Koestner, Renee Torres, Jennifer L Thompson, Ayumi K Shintani, Jin H Han, John Schnelle, Donna M Fick, E Wesley Ely, Sunil Kripalani
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Inappropriate medications in elderly ICU survivors: where to intervene?

Alessandro Morandi et al. Arch Intern Med. .
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Proportion of a patients with PIMs at pre-admission and at discharge
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Proportion of patients with AIMs at discharge
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