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. 2016 Feb 12;2016(2):CD009095. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD009095.pub3
1 polypharmacy/ 8098
2 polypharm*.ti,ab. 5772
3 ((multi‐drug* or multidrug*) adj2 (therapy or therapies or prescribing or treatment or regime*)).ti,ab. 3393
4 (beer* adj1 criter*).ti,ab. 550
5 inappropriate prescribing/ 1682
6 ((appropriate or optim* or inappropriat* or suboptim* or sub‐optim* or unnecessary or incorrect* or in‐correct* or excessive or multiple or concurrent* or adverse) adj2 (medicine? or medication? or prescription* or prescrib* or drug*)).ti,ab. 50332
7 ((over adj1 prescript*) or (over adj1 prescrib*) or (overprescrib* or overprescript*)).ti,ab. 1348
8 ((under adj prescript*) or (under adj prescrib*) or (underprescrib* or underprescript*)).ti,ab. 563
9 medication appropriateness index/ or medication appropriateness index.ti,ab. 113
10 (quality adj (prescribing or prescription? or medication?)).ti,ab. 128
11 (improv* adj (prescrib* or prescription? or pharmaco*)).ti,ab. 2583
12 case conferencing.ti,ab. 57
13 medication therapy management/ 4106
14 (medication? management or medication? therapy management or drug therapy management or medication? strategy or medication? strategies or (medication? adj2 review*)).ti,ab. 6098
15 drug regimen review*.ti,ab. 61
16 (drug adj utili?ation adj2 (review* or evaluat*)).ti,ab. 441
17 drug utilization/ 14141
18 ((drug or medication) adj related problem?).ti,ab. 1973
19 ((prescribing or prescription?) adj2 pattern?).ti,ab. 4150
20 assessing care of vulnerable elders.ti,ab. 72
21 assessing care of vulnerable elders.mp. 74
22 "assessing care of vulnerable elders"/ 2
23 acove.ti,ab. 89
24 stopp.ti,ab. 349
25 start screening tool.ti,ab. 46
26 screening tool of older person's prescriptions.ti,ab. 63
27 screening tool to alert doctors to right treatment.ti,ab. 56
28 medication error/ 11886
29 (pharmaceutical? or pharmacist? or prescrib*).ti,ab. 264124
30 drug/ 19225
31 pharmacist/ or pharmacy technician/ 45126
32 prescription drug/ 4573
33 prescription/ 106402
34 pharmacy/ 45688
35 pharmacotherap*.ti,ab. 31782
36 exp drug therapy/ 1368324
37 drug monitoring/ 26385
38 drug toxicity/ 6318
39 "drug use"/ 72662
40 or/1‐39 1750098
41 home for the aged/ or "home? for the aged".ti,ab. 5316
42 ((care or convalescent) adj (home? or center? or centre? or facility or facilities)).ti,ab. 39224
43 public hospital/ 21393
44 exp nursing homes/ 26353
45 ((skilled or intermediate) adj (nursing facility or nursing facilities*)).ti,ab. 1724
46 ((aged or geriatric or elderly) adj2 (care home? or facility or facilities or residential)).ti,ab. 1272
47 or/41‐46 86634
48 (resident* adj2 (care or facilit*)).ti,ab. 6772
49 ((nursing or group or residential) adj home*).ti,ab. 21258
50 long term care/ 83653
51 ((longterm or long term) adj3 (care or facilit*)).ti,ab. 17973
52 residential home/ 3955
53 residential home*.ti,ab. 707
54 assisted living facility/ 1431
55 assisted living.ti,ab. 1711
56 (life care cent* or continued care cent* or extended care facilit*).ti,ab. 283
57 halfway house/ 351
58 or/48‐57 118205
59 exp aged/ 1646752
60 geriatrics/ 15941
61 (aged or elder* or geriatric* or seniors or old age or older or late* life).ti,ab. 799481
62 (old* adj (person* or people or adult* or patient* or inpatient* or outpatient*)).ti,ab. 126453
63 veteran/ 11947
64 veteran*.ti,ab. 22983
65 or/59‐64 2164247
66 clinical trial/ 696973
67 randomized controlled trial/ 324874
68 randomization/ 57914
69 single blind procedure/ 18802
70 double blind procedure/ 96148
71 crossover procedure/ 38442
72 randomi?ed controlled trial*.ti,ab. 112095
73 rct.tw. 16460
74 random allocation.ti,ab. 1121
75 randomly allocated.ti,ab. 18340
76 allocated randomly.ti,ab. 1382
77 (allocated adj2 random).ti,ab. 292
78 single blind*.ti,ab. 12471
79 double blind*.ti,ab. 109011
80 ((treble or triple) adj2 blind*).ti,ab. 426
81 prospective study/ 267926
82 or/66‐81 1145782
83 exp animal/ not human/ 2195026
84 82 not 83 1107995
85 40 and 47 13171
86 40 and 58 and 65 10550
87 or/85‐86 20859
88 84 and 87 4153
89 limit 88 to yr="2012 ‐Current" 989