| Hyuk Ga | 4 Articles |
Prescribing potentially harmful drugs and omitting essential drugs to older patients is a common problem because they take so many medications. In this study, our goal was to identify potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs) and potential prescribing omissions (PPOs) using Screening Tool of Older Persons' potentially inappropriate Prescriptions (STOPP) and Screening Tool to Alert doctors to the Right Treatment (START) criteria to improve proper prescription and reduce improper prescription. Enrolled in this study were 117 patients older than 65 years old who were hospitalized at Inha University Hospital in Incheon due to pneumonia from January 2012 to March 2012. Patient data, including medical histories, current diagnoses, current medications, and biochemical data were recorded from electronic records. STOPP and START were applied to their clinical datasheets. STOPP criteria identified 24 patients who had 29 PIMs. Most potential inappropriate prescribing was of cardiovascular medications, followed by drugs whose primary effect is on the urogenital system and gastrointestinal system. START criteria identified 31 patients who had 46 PPOs. The cardiovascular system drugs comprised most of the PPOs. No PPOs were identified under the central nervous system criteria. Given the current Korean medical system conditions and considering the many clinically important situations when prescribing drugs, STOPP/START criteria are not absolute criteria to prevent improper prescription, but sagacious usage of these standards can help physicians to prescribe properly in clinical practice. Citations Citations to this article as recorded by
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TV viewing and computer use are sedentary behaviors and recent surveys report that they are associated with obesity in children. Association of these activities with obesity or obesity related lifestyles was investigated in this study. Methods: Using the database of questionnaires and physical check-ups among 4th to 6th grade elementary school students in Incheon, the association of television viewing and internet using time with obesity and obesity related factors (dietary habits, and physical activities) were investigated. A total of 2,750 students (1,100 normal weighted/1,650 overweight or obese) were included. Results: In the multiple analyses of computer using time among the boys and girls in weekdays and weekends respectively, according to their obesity degree, except for overweight and obese boys in weekends (P＜0.001), there were no significant differences examined. Multiple logistic regression revealed that children who watched TV more than 2 hours per day ate faster (OR 1.27), had breakfast more irregularly (OR 1.41) and ate vegetables more rarely (OR 1.53). The children who used computer more than 1 hour per day in weekdays were faster eaters (OR 1.38) and hardly ate fruits (OR 1.26) or vegetables (OR 1.60). In weekends, the children who spent time more than 90 minutes in the computer were faster to eat (OR 1.46), more snack eating (OR 1.22), less vegetable consuming (OR 1.59) and more obese (OR 1.46, 95%CI 1.24∼1.73) compared to the others. Conclusion: TV viewing and computer use were associated with several obesity related lifestyles in children. (J Korean Acad Fam Med 2008;29:182-188)
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Depression is the most frequently encountered mental disorder in primary care. In it is necessary to order to, have a screening tool has high sensitivity and specificity and consumes less time. Therefore, the aim of this study was to assess the validity of the Korean version of Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9). Methods: A convenience sample of 160 ambulatory patients in a family practice clinic at Inha university hospital and the health care center at Bakae hospital received the Korean version of PHQ-9. Then the subjects were interviewed by a resident of family medicine according to DSM- IV criteria. The sensitivity, the specificity, the likelihood ratio, the ROC curve, the validity and the reliability of the Korean version of PHQ-9, and the consumptive time were examined. Results: There were 22 pationts in the depression group and 138 in the non-depression group. The Cronbach's α was 0.852. The sensitivity and the specificity were 81.8% and 89.9%, respectively, and the positive likelihood ratio was 8.10. The area under curve had an excellent value, 0.944 (P＜0.05). The consumptive time was 2.66⁑1.13 minutes. Conclusion: The Korean version of PHQ-9 hay a good reliability and validity, less consumptive time, and easy calculating score. Therefore, the Korean version of PHQ-9 seems to be a useful measure for detecting depression in primary care. (J Korean Acad Fam Med 2007;28:114-119)
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: 'Masked Hypertension' is a phenomenon of blood pressure that is normotensive by clinic measurement but proves to be hypertensive by 24 hour-AMBP and is associated with many cardiovascular complications and its clinical importance has become the center of public interest. However, in Korea no study concerning masked hypertension has ever been published so far. We investigated the frequency and the related factors of masked hypertension among Koreans. Methods : Overall, 53 volunteers from Incheon and Seoul, Korea, who were 40 years old and abov were enrolled from August 2003 to August 2004. We checked their blood pressure and pulse rate every hour using an ambulatory blood pressure monitoring device [SpaceLabs 90207] for 24 hours. Masked hypertension was defined as office mean BP less than 140/90 mmHg and daytime mean BP over 135/85 mmHg. Results : Among the total, 15 subjects met the criteria of masked hypertension (28.3%) Current smoking (P=0.021), higher clinic mean SBP (P=0.011) and DBP (P=0.027), and prehypertension (P=0.04) were identified as related factors. And when adjusted for sex by logistic regression, only current smoking was statistically significant (P=0.039) and prehypertension showed borderline significance (P=0.092) (CI=95%). Additionally, mean pulse pressures and mean standard deviation of individual mean SBP were higher in the masked hypertension group. Conclusion : The frequency of masked hypertension was 28.3% the and related factors were current smoking and higher office BP, especially prehypertension that was introduced in JNC-7. The fact that the pulse pressure and the variability of individual SBP were higher in the masked hypertension group remains thought-provoking.
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