Potentially inappropriate medications and their effect on falls during hospital admission.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

to investigate the effect of potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs) on inpatient falls and to identify whether PIMs as defined by STOPPFall or the designated section K for falls of STOPP v2 have a stronger association with inpatient falls when compared to the general tool STOPP v2.

Methods

a retrospective observational matching study using an electronic health records dataset of patients (≥70 years) admitted to an academic hospital (2015-19), including free text to identify inpatient falls. PIMs were identified using the STOPP v2, section K of STOPP v2 and STOPPFall. We first matched admissions with PIMs to those without PIMs on confounding factors. We then applied multinomial logistic regression analysis and Cox proportional hazards analysis on the matched d

SUBMITTER: Damoiseaux-Volman BA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8753037 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature