Evaluation of medication use in Malaysian predialysis patients
| Autor: | Amer Hayat Khan, Syed Azhar Syed Sulaiman, Fahad Saleem, Khalid Hussain, Muhammad Salman, Naureen Shehzadi, Azreen Syazril Adnan, Nauman Asif, Muhammed Hussnain Raza, Muhammad Shahid Farooq |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Population 030232 urology & nephrology lcsh:Medicine Comorbidity 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology Medication prescription Drug Prescriptions 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Drug Utilization Review Risk Factors Internal medicine Medicine Humans Practice Patterns Physicians' Renal Insufficiency Chronic Intensive care medicine education Aged Hypolipidemic Agents Retrospective Studies Polypharmacy education.field_of_study business.industry Medical record Mortality rate lcsh:R Malaysia Retrospective cohort study General Medicine Middle Aged medicine.disease Calcium Channel Blockers Female business Platelet Aggregation Inhibitors Kidney disease |
| Zdroj: | Saudi Journal of Kidney Diseases and Transplantation, Vol 28, Iss 3, Pp 517-523 (2017) |
| ISSN: | 1319-2442 |
| Popis: | Chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients suffer from multiple comorbidities and complications as a cause or consequence of kidney disease. Information regarding medication- prescribing patterns in predialysis patients is sparse. We conducted a retrospective study to evaluate the medication prescription patterns among predialysis patients. Medical records (both paper based and computerized) of patients at CKD Resource Centre, Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia, were reviewed. A total of 615 eligible cases were included in the study. The mean number of medications prescribed per patient was 8.22 ± 2.81, and medication use was correlated to the renal function (stage 3a < stage 3b < stage 4 < stage 5; P |
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