Clinical Value of Automatic Reporting of Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate in Geriatrics

• Published in: Gerontology (Basel) Vol. 55; no. 3; pp. 288 - 295
• Main Authors: Kurtal, Hanife, Schwenger, Vedat, Azzaro, Marina, Abdollahnia, Nadja, Steinhagen-Thiessen, Elisabeth, Nieczaj, Rolf, Schulz, Ralf-Joachim
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland Karger 01.01.2009; S. Karger AG
• Subjects: Age Factors; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Biological and medical sciences; Body Mass Index; Clinical Laboratory Techniques - standards; Clinical Section; Comorbidity; Creatinine - blood; Development. Metamorphosis. Moult. Ageing; Drug dosages; Drug therapy; Female; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Geriatric Assessment; Glomerular Filtration Rate - physiology; Health risk assessment; Hospitalization; Humans; Kidney diseases; Logistic Models; Male; Multivariate Analysis; Older people; Renal Insufficiency, Chronic - drug therapy; Renal Insufficiency, Chronic - epidemiology; Renal Insufficiency, Chronic - physiopathology; Retrospective Studies; Sex Factors; Side effects; Statistics, Nonparametric; Vertebrates: anatomy and physiology, studies on body, several organs or systems; Chronic kidney disease; Drug therapy; Elderly; Estimation of renal function; Human; Kidney disease; Drug; Senescence; Urinary system disease; Glomerular filtration; Renal function; Vertebrata; Mammalia; Renal failure

Background: Geriatric patients frequently have impaired renal function. Multimorbidity leads to polypharmacy with high risk of adverse drug reactions. Objective: The aim was to evaluate the prevalence of renal impairment and risk of overdosing renally excreted drugs in hospitalized geriatric patient...