Robert Vander Stichele

TL;DR: Outpatient antibiotic use in 26 countries in Europe between Jan 1, 1997, and Dec 31, 2002 was investigated by calculating the number of defined daily doses (DDD) per 1000 inhabitants per day according to WHO anatomic therapeutic chemical classification and DDD measurement methodology, and the ecological association between antibiotic use and antibiotic resistance rates was assessed using Spearman's correlation coefficients.

TL;DR: Estimating the frequency of euthanasia, physician-assisted suicide, and other ELDs in medical practice in Flanders, Belgium found the rate of administration of lethal drugs to patients without their explicit request is similar to Australia, and significantly higher than that in the Netherlands.

TL;DR: The authors' selection of 100 drugs with clinically relevant anticholinergic properties needs to be supplemented with validated information on dosing and route of administration for a full estimation of the anticholergic burden in poly-medicated older adults.

TL;DR: 12 of the proposed ESAC-based quality indicators for outpatient antibiotics use in Europe have face validity and are potentially applicable and could be used to better describe antibiotic use in ambulatory care and assess the quality of national antibiotic prescribing patterns in Europe.

TL;DR: Whether withdrawal of antipsychotic agents is successful in older people with dementia in community or nursing home settings is evaluated, to list the different strategies for withdrawal, and to measure the effects of withdrawal of anti-psychotic agents on behaviour.