Pharmacist comprehensive review of fall-risk-increasing drugs and polypharmacy in elderly Spanish community patients using RStudio®.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The aim of this study is to identify and analyze adults aged ≥65 years living in the Canary Islands, Spain, who are prescribed medications that increase the risk of falls and are polymedicated. To do so we have made use of the electronic prescription and the RStudio®.

Method

For the detection of Fall-Risk-Increasing Drugs (FRIDs), outpatient electronic prescription dispensing data were used in two pharmacies. A total of 118,890 dispensations grouped into 15,601 treatment plans for 2,312 patients were analyzed. The FRIDs analyzed were antipsychotics (APSI), benzodiazepines (BZPN), antidepressants (DEPR), opioids (OPIO) and Z-hypnotics (ZHIP). For the development of the algorithms for the construction of tables and data screening, the statistical programming language

SUBMITTER: Gonzalez-Munguia S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10293665 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature