J F Bonfiglio, L T Sigell, S L Boston, E D Nelson, R E Lee, E A McCray
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Every year the elderly purchase an average of 13.7 prescription drugs at a cost of 3.1 billion dollars and they spend an additional 1.5 billion dollars on over-thecounter drugs.’ In addition, it is known that a) 18% of adverse reactions requiring hospitalization are associated with improper choice or use of over-the-counter drugs, b) 23% of elderly nursing home patients are prescribed drugs which are known to interactzns and c) 17% of elderly nursing home patients and 25% of all other elderly patients will be hospitalized at least once because of an adverse drug reaction (at an approximate cost of 7 billion
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