Potentially inappropriate medication prescriptions among elderly nursing home residents: their scope and associated resident and facility characteristics

Health Services Research, Oct, 2004 by Denys T. Lau, Judith D. Kasper, D.E.B. Potter, Alan Lyles

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We thank the following individuals for their helpful comments on earlier drafts of this paper: Rick Bennett and Crystal Simpson of Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine; and Francesca Dominici, Lynda Burton, and Emily Agree of Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health; and William Spector, Joel Cohen, Steven Cohen, John Moeller, and Tom Shaffer of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. We also thank Kathy McMillan, Devi Katikineni, and Zhengyi Fang of Social Scientific Systems, Inc., for their data processing support.

NOTES

(1.) Results are available in Appendix A of the electronic version of this article.

(2.) Results are available in Appendix B of the electronic version of this article.

(3.) Results are available in Appendix C of the electronic version of this article.

(4.) Results are available in Appendix C of the electronic version of this article.

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