Association of pneumonia admission with polypharmacy and drug use in community-dwelling older people.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

The purpose of the present study was to clarify the association of pneumonia admission with polypharmacy and specific drug use in community-dwelling older people.

Methods

Using health insurance and long-term care insurance data from Kure city in Japan, we retrospectively collected data for older community-dwelling people (aged ≥65 years) from April 2017 to March 2019. The outcome was pneumonia admission. We carried out multivariate logistic regression analysis to identify the association of pneumonia admission with polypharmacy (≥5 drugs), the use of psychotropic drugs or anticholinergics with adjustment for patient backgrounds, such as comorbidity, and the daily life independence level for the older people with disability.

Results

Of 59 040 older people, 4017 (6.

SUBMITTER: Hamaya H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11503537 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature