Study of Alternative Dosage Forms for Drug Administration in Geriatric Patients

Abstract

A documentary review was carried out on the production and publication of research papers related to the study of the variables Drug Supply and Geriatric Patients. The purpose of the bibliometric analysis proposed in this document was to know the main characteristics of the volume of publications registered in the Scopus database during the period 2017-2022, achieving the identification of 21 publications in total. The information provided by this platform was organized through graphs and figures, categorizing the information by Year of Publication, Country of Origin, Area of Knowledge and Type of Publication. Once these characteristics have been described, the position of different authors on the proposed topic is referenced through a qualitative analysis. Among the main findings made through this research, it is found that the United States was the country with the highest number of registrations in Scopus with a total of 8 publications referring to the study of pharmaceutical prescriptions and the different alternatives for the supply of medicine in the elderly population. The Area of Knowledge that made the greatest contribution to the study variables was Medicine with 18 published documents, and the Type of Publication that was most used during the period indicated above were Journal Articles, which represent 86% of the total scientific production.