UMass Chan Affiliations
Department of Medicine, Division of Geriatric MedicineMeyers Primary Care Institute
Document Type
Book ChapterPublication Date
2000-01-01
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Chapter Outline: Epidemiology of drug use in the elderly -- Pharmacokinetics in the elderly -- Drug therapy and pharmacodynamics -- Drug-disease interactions -- Guidelines for geriatric prescribing.Source
Vestal RE, Gurwitz JH. Geriatric Pharmacology. In: Melmon and Morrelli's Clinical Pharmacology: Basic Principles in Therapeutics, Fourth Edition. Melmon KL, Morrelli HF, Hoffman BB, Nierenberg DW, eds: McGraw-Hill, Inc., New York, 2000, Chapter 21. ISBN0071054065, 9780071054065.
Partial preview of chapter available via Google Books.