Importance of potentially inappropriate medications, number of chronic conditions and medications for the risk of hospitalisation in elderly in Sweden: a case-control study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study aimed to investigate the importance of potentially inappropriate medications, number of medications and chronic conditions for the risk of hospitalisation among an elderly population.

Design

This is a case-control study.

Setting

Population-based study in 2013 of all individuals aged 75 years and older (17 203) in the county of Blekinge in the southeast of Sweden.

Participants

A total of 2941 individuals were included who had at least one hospitalisation to a medical, geriatric and palliative, or orthopaedic ward during 2013. From this total, 81 were excluded because of incomplete data or absence of controls. In total, 5720 patients were included and formed 2860 risk sets matched on age and gender.

Primary and secondary outcome measures<

SUBMITTER: Thorell K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6773336 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature