"Gender-specific drug prescription in Germany" results from prescriptions analyses.

摘要: There are still considerable differences in the medication supply for men and women. While prescription volumes both women have, some time, been similar or have even risen men, there characteristic between sexes when it comes to of certain indication groups. Women prescribed clearly more drugs field psychotropic medication, especially antidepressants, hypnotic drugs, tranquilisers. As American Beers criteria quite time now and, recently, German PRISCUS list shown, effects such potentially dangerous, particularly older The known adverse are, apart from dependence problems, restricted cognitive capacities, insecure instable walking, badly healing wounds falling accidents that followed by patient’s nursing care dependency. In secondary prophylaxis after acute myocardial infarction, features various medicinal products used (such as platelet aggregation inhibitors, beta-receptor blockers, ACE-inhibitors, statins) become similar; women’s higher mortality risk appears go back fact too much is spent before proper hospital treatment commences. general, attention should be paid right length treatment, dosage women; evidence concerning also improved.