High-risk medications in older patients with trauma: a cross-sectional study of risk mitigation | Zendy

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High-risk medications in older patients with trauma: a cross-sectional study of risk mitigation

Author(s) -

E Lester,

Mark Dykstra,

Chantalle Grant,

Vanessa Fawcett,

Bonnie Tsang,

Sandy Widder

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

canadian journal of surgery

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.609

H-Index - 64

eISSN - 1488-2310

pISSN - 0008-428X

DOI - 10.1503/cjs.017117

Subject(s) - medicine , beers criteria , polypharmacy , confidence interval , odds ratio , emergency medicine , retrospective cohort study , medical prescription , incidence (geometry) , physics , optics , pharmacology

The Beers Criteria for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use inOlder Adults is a framework that can assess the nature of high-risk medication use. The objective of this study was to use the Beers Criteria to assess the prevalence and nature of polypharmacy, the magnitude of medication changes during the hospital stay and the impact of Beers Criteria medications on outcomes in older patients with trauma.

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