Potentially inappropriate medications and their effect on falls during hospital admission.

Objective to investigate the effect of potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs) on inpatient falls and to identify whether PIMs as defined by STOPPFall or the designated section K for falls of STOPP v2 have a stronger association with inpatient falls when compared to the general tool STOPP v2. M...

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Published in:	Age & Ageing Vol. 51; no. 1; pp. 1 - 9
Main Authors:	Damoiseaux-Volman, Birgit A, Raven, Kimmy, Sent, Danielle, Medlock, Stephanie, Romijn, Johannes A, Abu-Hanna, Ameen, van der Velde, Nathalie
Format:	Article
Published:	Oxford University Press / USA Jan2022
Subjects:	Retrospective studies Hospital care Hospital care of older people Old age Scientific observation Acquisition of data methodology Confidence intervals Inappropriate prescribing (Medicine) Risk assessment Accidental falls Medical records Descriptive statistics Logistic regression analysis Odds ratio Proportional hazards models
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