{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["363"],"submitter":["Perez T"],"pubmed_abstract":["<h4>Objective</h4>To determine whether hospital admission is associated with potentially inappropriate prescribing among older primary care patients (aged ≥65 years) and whether such prescribing was more likely after hospital admission than before.<h4>Design</h4>Longitudinal study of retrospectively extracted data from general practice records.<h4>Setting</h4>44 general practices in Ireland in 2012-15.<h4>Participants</h4>Adults aged 65 years or over attending participating practices.<h4>Exposure</h4>Admission to hospital (any hospital admission versus none, and post-admission versus pre-admission).<h4>Main outcome measures</h4>Prevalence of potentially inappropriate prescribing assessed using 45 criteria from the Screening Tool for Older Persons' Prescription (STOPP) version 2, analysed b"],"journal":["BMJ (Clinical research ed.)"],"pagination":["k4524"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC6233705"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"pubmed_title":["Prevalence of potentially inappropriate prescribing in older people in primary care and its association with hospital admission: longitudinal study."],"pmcid":["PMC6233705"],"pubmed_authors":["Perez T","McDowell R","Fahey T","Redmond P","Wallace E","Moriarty F"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Prevalence of potentially inappropriate prescribing in older people in primary care and its association with hospital admission: longitudinal study.","description":"<h4>Objective</h4>To determine whether hospital admission is associated with potentially inappropriate prescribing among older primary care patients (aged ≥65 years) and whether such prescribing was more likely after hospital admission than before.<h4>Design</h4>Longitudinal study of retrospectively extracted data from general practice records.<h4>Setting</h4>44 general practices in Ireland in 2012-15.<h4>Participants</h4>Adults aged 65 years or over attending participating practices.<h4>Exposure</h4>Admission to hospital (any hospital admission versus none, and post-admission versus pre-admission).<h4>Main outcome measures</h4>Prevalence of potentially inappropriate prescribing assessed using 45 criteria from the Screening Tool for Older Persons' Prescription (STOPP) version 2, analysed b","dates":{"release":"2018-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2018 Nov","modification":"2025-04-26T07:20:45.473Z","creation":"2019-03-27T00:08:48Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC6233705","cross_references":{"pubmed":["30429122"],"doi":["10.1136/bmj.k4524"]}}