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Polypharmacy, length of hospital stay, and in-hospital mortality among elderly patients in internal medicine wards. The REPOSI study
Author(s) -
On behalf of SIMI Investigators,
Alessandro Nobili,
Giuseppe Licata,
Francesco Salerno,
Luca Pasina,
Mauro Tettamanti,
Carlotta Franchi,
Luigi De Vittorio,
Alessandra Marengoni,
Salvatore Corrao,
Alfonso Iorio,
Maura Marcucci,
Pier Mannuccio Mannucci
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
european journal of clinical pharmacology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.845
H-Index - 108
eISSN - 1432-1041
pISSN - 0031-6970
DOI - 10.1007/s00228-010-0977-0
Subject(s) - polypharmacy , medicine , confidence interval , logistic regression , odds ratio , confounding , comorbidity , beers criteria , emergency medicine , concomitant , hospital medicine
We evaluated the prevalence and factors associated with polypharmacy and investigated the role of polypharmacy as a predictor of length of hospital stay and in-hospital mortality.

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