Knowledge among geriatric patients towards side-effects of their prescribed medication

Geriatric patients or otherwise known as 'warga em as' in Malaysia are among the population group who consume large quantity numbers of medication, due to their chronic conditions in experiencing chronic diseases and illnesses, as the aging process is undeniable to be the cause for exis...

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Main Author: Bakri, Fadhilah Mohd
Format: Monograph
Language:English
Published: Pusat Pengajian Sains Kesihatan, Universiti Sains Malaysia 2006
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Online Access:http://eprints.usm.my/47836/
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description Geriatric patients or otherwise known as 'warga em as' in Malaysia are among the population group who consume large quantity numbers of medication, due to their chronic conditions in experiencing chronic diseases and illnesses, as the aging process is undeniable to be the cause for existence of these conditions on them. Therefore certain 1nedications are prescribed for them in treating their diseases and also to reduce the signs and sytnptotns of the disease. However, within longer period of time consuming these medication, the side-effects of the medication are not possible to emerge and cause difficulty to these geriatric patients. It will be hatmful later in their late life as the geriatric patients should know well about their prescribed medication to forbid the side-effects of the medication from happening to them.
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spelling usm-478362020-11-02T06:09:01Z http://eprints.usm.my/47836/ Knowledge among geriatric patients towards side-effects of their prescribed medication Bakri, Fadhilah Mohd R Medicine Geriatric patients or otherwise known as 'warga em as' in Malaysia are among the population group who consume large quantity numbers of medication, due to their chronic conditions in experiencing chronic diseases and illnesses, as the aging process is undeniable to be the cause for existence of these conditions on them. Therefore certain 1nedications are prescribed for them in treating their diseases and also to reduce the signs and sytnptotns of the disease. However, within longer period of time consuming these medication, the side-effects of the medication are not possible to emerge and cause difficulty to these geriatric patients. It will be hatmful later in their late life as the geriatric patients should know well about their prescribed medication to forbid the side-effects of the medication from happening to them. Pusat Pengajian Sains Kesihatan, Universiti Sains Malaysia 2006 Monograph NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.usm.my/47836/1/FADHILAH%20MOHD.%20BAKRI-24%20pages.pdf Bakri, Fadhilah Mohd (2006) Knowledge among geriatric patients towards side-effects of their prescribed medication. Documentation. Pusat Pengajian Sains Kesihatan, Universiti Sains Malaysia. (Submitted)
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Bakri, Fadhilah Mohd
Knowledge among geriatric patients towards side-effects of their prescribed medication
title Knowledge among geriatric patients towards side-effects of their prescribed medication
title_full Knowledge among geriatric patients towards side-effects of their prescribed medication
title_fullStr Knowledge among geriatric patients towards side-effects of their prescribed medication
title_full_unstemmed Knowledge among geriatric patients towards side-effects of their prescribed medication
title_short Knowledge among geriatric patients towards side-effects of their prescribed medication
title_sort knowledge among geriatric patients towards side-effects of their prescribed medication
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url http://eprints.usm.my/47836/
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