Nursing Home Characteristics Associated with High and Low Levels of Antipsychotic, Benzodiazepine, and Opioid Prescribing to Residents with Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias: A Cross-Sectional Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

We examined the association between nursing home (NH) characteristics and whether NHs had high or low levels of antipsychotic, benzodiazepine, or opioid prescribing to residents with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD). We then measured the likelihood that NHs who were high (low) prescribers of antipsychotics were also high (low) prescribers of benzodiazepines or opioids.

Design

A retrospective, cross-sectional analysis.

Setting and participants

The sample included 448,128 Medicare beneficiaries diagnosed with ADRD, who resided in 13,151 NHs in 2017.

Methods

Using Medicare claims, the Minimum Data Set, and LTCFocus, we measured the share of NH residents with ADRD who filled ≥1 antipsychotic, benzodiazepine, or opioid prescription in 2017

SUBMITTER: Candon M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9637710 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature