Medication utilization in traumatic brain injury patients-insights from a population-based matched cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is associated with health problems across multiple domains and TBI patients are reported to have high rates of medication use. However, prior evidence is thin due to methodological limitations. Our aim was thus to examine the use of a wide spectrum of medications prescribed to address pain and somatic conditions in a population-based cohort of TBI patients, and to compare this to a sex- and age-matched cohort. We also examined how patient factors such as sex, age, and TBI severity were associated with medication use.

Methods

We assessed Swedish nationwide registers to include all individuals treated for TBI in hospitals or specialist outpatient care between 2006 and 2012. We examined dispensed prescriptions for eight different non-ps

SUBMITTER: Molero Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10879380 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature