Prevalence of potentially inappropriate prescribing in older people in primary care and its association with hospital admission: longitudinal study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine whether hospital admission is associated with potentially inappropriate prescribing among older primary care patients (aged ≥65 years) and whether such prescribing was more likely after hospital admission than before.

Design

Longitudinal study of retrospectively extracted data from general practice records.

Setting

44 general practices in Ireland in 2012-15.

Participants

Adults aged 65 years or over attending participating practices.

Exposure

Admission to hospital (any hospital admission versus none, and post-admission versus pre-admission).

Main outcome measures

Prevalence of potentially inappropriate prescribing assessed using 45 criteria from the Screening Tool for Older Persons' Prescription (STOPP) version 2, analysed b

SUBMITTER: Perez T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6233705 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature