Change in central nervous system-active medication use following fall-related injury in older adults.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Central nervous system (CNS)-active medication use is an important modifiable risk factor for falls in older adults. A fall-related injury should prompt providers to evaluate and reduce CNS-active medications to prevent recurrent falls. We evaluated change in CNS-active medications up to 12 months following a fall-related injury in community-dwelling older adults compared with a matched cohort without fall-related injury.

Methods

Participants were from the Adult Changes in Thought study conducted at Kaiser Permanente Washington. Fall-related injury codes between 1994 and 2014 defined index encounters in participants with no evidence of such injuries in the preceding year. We matched each fall-related injury index encounter with up to five randomly selected clinica

SUBMITTER: Hart LA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8742750 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature