Pattern of Inpatient Laxative Use: Waste Not, Want Not

JAMA Intern Med. 2016 Aug 1;176(8):1216-7. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2016.2775.

Authors

Todd C Lee¹, Emily G McDonald¹, Andre Bonnici², Robyn Tamblyn³

Affiliations

¹ Clinical Practice Assessment Unit, Department of Medicine, McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, Canada.
² Pharmacy Department, McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, Canada.
³ Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montréal, Canada.

PMID: 27323235
DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2016.2775

No abstract available

MeSH terms

Constipation / drug therapy*
Diagnosis, Differential
Diarrhea / chemically induced
Diarrhea / diagnosis
Diarrhea / economics
Dioctyl Sulfosuccinic Acid / economics
Dioctyl Sulfosuccinic Acid / therapeutic use
Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous / diagnosis
Hospitalization*
Humans
Inventories, Hospital / economics
Laxatives / economics
Laxatives / therapeutic use*
Nursing Service, Hospital / economics
Pharmacy Service, Hospital / economics
Polypharmacy
Practice Patterns, Physicians' / statistics & numerical data*
Quebec
Surface-Active Agents / economics
Surface-Active Agents / therapeutic use*

Substances

Laxatives
Surface-Active Agents
Dioctyl Sulfosuccinic Acid