Patient, Physician, and Health-System Factors Influencing the Quality of Antidepressant and Sedative Prescribing for Older, Community-Dwelling Adults.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To identify determinants of potentially inappropriate (PI) antidepressant and anxiolytic/sedative prescribing for older, community-dwelling adults.

Data sources/study setting

Office visits from the 2010 National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey.

Study design

A cross-sectional study measuring associations between various patient and physician factors and prescribing of PI antidepressants, and PI sedatives among elderly, using Beers 2012/2015 criteria, a clinical decision model, and multivariate logistic regressions.

Data collection

Visits by older adults (≥65 years) involving medications were extracted to identify visits with antidepressants and sedatives.

Principal findings

Black race, asthma, depression, osteoporosis, payment type, consultation

SUBMITTER: Extavour RM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5785327 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature