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Ageing of the population and specific aspects of prescribing of hypnotics in older adults (II.)
Puldová, Karolína ; Fialová, Daniela (advisor) ; Kostřiba, Jan (referee)
Title: Ageing of the population and specific aspects of prescribing of hypnotics in older adults (II.) Student: Karolína Puldová, Department of Social and Clinical Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec Králové, Czech Republic Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Daniela Fialová, PharmD, Ph.D., Department of Social and Clinical Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec Králové and Department of Geriatrics and Gerontology, 1st Faculty of Medicine and General Teaching Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic Introduction: World population is ageing and rational geriatric pharmacotherapy receives increasing attention. In seniors, rational pharmacotherapy is complicated by many risk factors, especially by physiological and pathological changes accompanying ageing, polymorbidity, polypharmacy, higher risk of adverse drug events, drug interactions and other risk factors. Particularly psychotropics belong to drug classes where rational prescribing in seniors often requires respecting of different rules. This diploma thesis focuses on specific aspects of irrational prescribing of hypnosedatives in ambulatory geriatric patients, particularly in the area of use of nongeriatric doses and nongeriatric lenght of therapy. Methodology: Data collection for this diploma thesis has been conducted between 2019-2020 years in the...
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