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Prescribing cascades potentially associated with harms before and after transition to long-term care facilities.

Background Transition to long-term care facilities (LTCFs) is a critical period associated with increases in medication errors and adverse events, yet our knowledge of prescribing cascades in the older population during this period is limited. The objective was to identify prescribing cascades poten...

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Published in:Age & Ageing Vol. 55; no. 6; pp. 1 - 12
Main Authors: Hansen, Craig, Ellet, Lisa Kalisch, Air, Tracy, Inacio, Maria C, Caughey, Gillian Elizabeth
Format: Article
Published: Oxford University Press / USA Jun2026
Subjects:
Australia
Elder care
Drug side effects
Retrospective studies
Nursing care facilities
Drugs
Old age
Prevention of drug side effects
Inappropriate prescribing (Medicine)
Risk assessment
Mathematical variables
Benzodiazepines
Research funding
Disease prevalence
Polypharmacy
Antipsychotic agents
Tranquilizing drugs
Descriptive statistics
Transitional care
Antidepressants
Longitudinal method
Physician practice patterns
Research
Medical records
Acquisition of data
Statins (Cardiovascular agents)
Dementia
Drug prescribing
Confidence intervals
Data analysis software
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