Time trends in psychotropic drug prescriptions in Dutch nursing home residents with dementia between 2003 and 2018.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Several European studies investigated the trends in psychotropic drug prescriptions (PDPs) among nursing home (NH) residents and reported a decline in antipsychotics prescriptions. Since the Dutch long-term care system differs from other European systems (e.g. higher threshold for NH admission and trained elderly care physicians), this study explores the trends in PDPs in Dutch NH residents with dementia.

Methods

The study used data from nine studies, comprising two cross-sectional studies, one cohort study, and six cluster-randomized controlled trials, collected in Dutch NHs between 2003 and 2018. With multilevel logistic regression analysis, NHs as a random effect, we estimated the trends in PDPs overall and for five specific psychotropic drug groups (antipsychot

SUBMITTER: Du J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9311063 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature