Impacts of antipsychotic medication prescribing practices in critically ill adult patients on health resource utilization and new psychoactive medication prescriptions.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Antipsychotic medications are commonly prescribed to critically ill adult patients and initiation of new antipsychotic prescriptions in the intensive care unit (ICU) increases the proportion of patients discharged home on antipsychotics. Critically ill adult patients are also frequently exposed to multiple psychoactive medications during ICU admission and hospitalization including benzodiazepines and opioid medications which may increase the risk of psychoactive polypharmacy following hospital discharge. The associated impact on health resource utilization and risk of new benzodiazepine and opioid prescriptions is unknown.

Research question

What is the burden of health resource utilization and odds of new prescriptions of benzodiazepines and opioids up to 1-year p

SUBMITTER: Jaworska N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10310007 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature