Both New and Chronic Potentially Inappropriate Medications Continued at Hospital Discharge Are Associated With Increased Risk of Adverse Events.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Admission to hospital provides the opportunity to review patient medications; however, the extent to which the safety of drug regimens changes after hospitalization is unclear.

Objective

To estimate the number of potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs) prescribed to patients at hospital discharge and their association with the risk of adverse events 30 days after discharge.

Design

Prospective cohort study.

Setting

Tertiary care hospitals within the McGill University Health Centre Network in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Participants

Patients from internal medicine, cardiac, and thoracic surgery, aged 65 years and older, admitted between October 2014 and November 2016.

Measures

Abstracted chart data were linked to provincial health data

SUBMITTER: Weir DL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7687123 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature