Analgesic drug use in elderly persons: A population-based study in Southern Italy

• Ylenia Ingrasciotta ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ylenia Ingrasciotta, Janet Sultana

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ YI and JS are joint first authors on this work. FG, EM, AS, MT, DUT, GB, and GT also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical and Dental Sciences and Morphofunctional Imaging, University of Messina, Messina, Italy

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• Janet Sultana ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ylenia Ingrasciotta, Janet Sultana

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ YI and JS are joint first authors on this work. FG, EM, AS, MT, DUT, GB, and GT also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical and Dental Sciences and Morphofunctional Imaging, University of Messina, Messina, Italy

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9622-169X

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• Francesco Giorgianni ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ YI and JS are joint first authors on this work. FG, EM, AS, MT, DUT, GB, and GT also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Unit of Clinical Pharmacology A.O.U. ‘G. Martino’ Hospital’, Messina, Italy

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• Enrica Menditto ,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ YI and JS are joint first authors on this work. FG, EM, AS, MT, DUT, GB, and GT also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation CIRFF, Center of Pharmacoeconomics, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy

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• Angelo Scuteri ,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ YI and JS are joint first authors on this work. FG, EM, AS, MT, DUT, GB, and GT also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation HSR Pisana IRCCS, Rome, Italy

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• Michele Tari ,

  Roles Data curation, Resources

  ¶‡ YI and JS are joint first authors on this work. FG, EM, AS, MT, DUT, GB, and GT also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Local Health Unit of Caserta, Caserta, Italy

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• Daniele Ugo Tari ,

  Roles Data curation, Resources

  ¶‡ YI and JS are joint first authors on this work. FG, EM, AS, MT, DUT, GB, and GT also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Local Health Unit of Caserta, Caserta, Italy

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• Giorgio Basile ,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ YI and JS are joint first authors on this work. FG, EM, AS, MT, DUT, GB, and GT also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical and Dental Sciences and Morphofunctional Imaging, University of Messina, Messina, Italy

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• Gianluca Trifiro’

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: trifirog@unime.it

  ¶‡ YI and JS are joint first authors on this work. FG, EM, AS, MT, DUT, GB, and GT also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Department of Biomedical and Dental Sciences and Morphofunctional Imaging, University of Messina, Messina, Italy, Department of Medical Informatics, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

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