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cular diseases and AIDS (Table 1). This epidemic reflects the aging of Western societies as COPD is an age-related disease and the lack of success against the main avoidable culprit, which is smoking, causing about 80–90 % of all COPD-related deaths. Although in the United States smoking is on the d

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Critical Extrapolation of Guidelines and Study Results: Risk-Benefit Assessment for Patients with Ref a newly developed drug, its clinical development was mainly restricted to younger adults, but it will be used predominantly in the group of elderly patients in whom it had never or only insufficiently been tested. This points to a large evidence gap in this context; as evidence-based medicine (EBM

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Inappropriate Medication Use and Medication Errors in the Elderlyg) (Edwards and Aronson 2000; Hanlon et al. 2010). Besides death, which fortunately is rarely due to medications, one of the worst consequences of medication use in older adults is hospitalization. Studies have shown that up to 16 % of hospital admissions are due to ADRs, up to 11 % due to TFs, and

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Obstructive Lung Diseasescular diseases and AIDS (Table 1). This epidemic reflects the aging of Western societies as COPD is an age-related disease and the lack of success against the main avoidable culprit, which is smoking, causing about 80–90 % of all COPD-related deaths. Although in the United States smoking is on the d

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Parkinson’s Diseasec, and toxic ones are rare. The prevalence of drug-induced parkinsonian syndromes remains less clear, but reports found it to be up to 50 % in nursing home residents (Stephen and Williamson 1984). As this figure seems alarmingly high, ruling out drug-induced parkinsonian syndromes is very important