Association between psychotropics use and occurrence of falls in hospitalized patients: A matched case-control study.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

Understanding the appropriate prescription of psychotropics for hospitalized patients in terms of preventing falls is an important issue. The aim of this study was to assess the associations between the occurrence of falls and the use of various individual psychotropics in hospitalized patients.

Methods

A retrospective matched case-control study was conducted on adult patients admitted to every department of Tokyo Medical University Hospital, with the outcome being in-hospital falls. A total of 447 hospitalized patients who had had in-hospital falls at some point in their hospitalization between January 2016 and December 2016 were included as cases. A total of 447 hospitalized patients who did not have in-hospital falls, and were individually matched to the cases by sex,

SUBMITTER: Morishita C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11114364 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature