To estimate the frequency of the use of medicines listed in the Screening Tool to Alert Doctors to the Right Treatment (START) and Screening Tool of Older Person’s Prescriptions (STOPP) criteria version 2 among the elderly. A cross-sectional study was conducted on elderly who were attended in medical clinic and cardiology sectors in a hospital in southern Brazil attended at a hospital from February through Sept...
Aims: To evaluate the profile of patients undergoing cardiac catheterization and in-hospital complications associated with the procedure. Methods: Cross-sectional analysis of baseline data of a retrospective cohort study conducted in a tertiary care hospital in southern Brazil between 2007 and 2013. The study included patients undergoing diagnostic or therapeutic cardiac catheterization. The data were extracted...