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Identifying anticholinergic burden in frail older people
Author(s) -
Mehdizadeh David,
McInerney Ciarán D.,
Petty Duncan
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
prescriber
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.106
H-Index - 3
eISSN - 1931-2253
pISSN - 0959-6682
DOI - 10.1002/psb.1877
Subject(s) - anticholinergic , medicine , older people , gerontology , population , environmental health , pharmacology
Anticholinergic medicines are routinely prescribed to manage a variety of clinical conditions, but are potentially inappropriate in the treatment of older people, especially those living with frailty. Here, the authors describe how their AC‐FRAIL tool can assist practices to identify frail older people within a practice population who are at greatest risk from anticholinergic burden.