Calculating and using the drug burden index score in research and practice

Sarah N Hilmer^{1

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Affiliations

¹ a Head of Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Senior Staff Specialist Aged Care , Royal North Shore Hospital , Sydney , Australia.
² b Northern Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine and Health , The University of Sydney , Sydney , Australia.
³ c Kolling Institute , Royal North Shore Hospital and University of Sydney , Sydney , Australia.

Editorial

Sarah N Hilmer. Expert Rev Clin Pharmacol. 2018 Nov.

. 2018 Nov;11(11):1053-1055.

doi: 10.1080/17512433.2018.1528145. Epub 2018 Sep 29.

Sarah N Hilmer^{1

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3}

¹ a Head of Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Senior Staff Specialist Aged Care , Royal North Shore Hospital , Sydney , Australia.
² b Northern Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine and Health , The University of Sydney , Sydney , Australia.
³ c Kolling Institute , Royal North Shore Hospital and University of Sydney , Sydney , Australia.

No abstract available

Keywords: Drug burden index; ageing; anticholinergic; deprescribing; functional outcomes; potentially inappropriate prescribing; sedative.

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