Cost effectiveness of withdrawal of fall-risk-increasing drugs in geriatric outpatients.

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Withdrawal of fall-risk-increasing drugs has been proven to be effective in older persons. However, given the enormous rise in healthcare costs in recent decades, the effect of such withdrawals on healthcare costs also needs to be considered.

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Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Drugs Aging

Title: Drugs & aging

ISSN: 1170-229X

ISSN (Print): 1170-229X

Publication date (Electronic): 2008

Volume: 25

Issue: 6

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[1 ] Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

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Publisher Item ID: 2565

DOI: 10.2165/00002512-200825060-00005

PubMed ID: 18540690

SO-VID: 0e837da2-8513-433a-80a7-034a87a6810f

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