Anders Carlsten
Medical Products Agency
27 Papers
311 Citations
Anders Carlsten is an academic researcher from Medical Products Agency. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Pharmacy. The author has an hindex of 15, co-authored 27 publications. Previous affiliations of Anders Carlsten include Apoteket.
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Papers
Antidepressant medication and suicide in Sweden.
TL;DR: To explore a possible temporal association between changes in antidepressant sales and suicide rates in different age groups, a study of sales of antidepressants in the Netherlands over a 10-year period found a link between sales and suicides.
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Quality of drug prescribing in elderly people in nursing homes and special care units for dementia: a cross-sectional computerized pharmacy register analysis.
Jonny Olsson,Åsa Bergman,Anders Carlsten,Thimothy Oke,Cecilia Bernsten,Cecilia Bernsten,Ingrid Schmidt,Johan Fastbom,Johan Fastbom +8 more
TL;DR: A lower quality of drug prescribing was found in younger and older elderly residents receiving multi-dose drug dispensing in ordinary nursing homes (NHs) and special care units for dementia (NHDs), and a higher rate of psychotropic drug use was found compared with previous studies in NHs.
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The role of benzodiazepines in elderly suicides
TL;DR: Benzodiazepines, especially the hypnotics flunitrazepam and nitrazepams, are common in drug poisoning suicides in the elderly and should be prescribed with caution for this age group.
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Cost of illness of patient-reported adverse drug events: a population-based cross-sectional survey.
Hanna Gyllensten,Clas Rehnberg,Anna K. Jönsson,Max Petzold,Anders Carlsten,Karolina Andersson Sundell +5 more
TL;DR: Self-reported ADEs seem to be associated with high overall COI from a societal perspective when comparing respondents with and without ADEs, and there is a need to further examine this relationship and to study the indirect costs resulting from ADEs.
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A comparison of two methods for estimating refill adherence to statins in Sweden: the RARE project
Eva Lesén,Tatiana Zverkova Sandström,Anders Carlsten,Anna K. Jönsson,Ann-Charlotte Mårdby,Karolina Andersson Sundell +5 more
TL;DR: To analyse and compare refill adherence to statins estimated with two different methods with a focus on sensitivity to definitions, analysis and comparison of sensitivity to definition is conducted.
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