Half of all patients over 65 years of age receives, apparently, drugs that are not suitable for their age group. So your risk of hospital increases, admissions, a current study out of Ireland.
In 2015, 51 percent of the surveyed seniors had received inappropriate drugs, such as the scientists report in the journal BMJ. The researchers, led by Dr. Frank Moriarty from the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin were able to show a connection to increased hospital admissions. So between 10 and 15 percent of the observed patients had to be at least once every year to the hospital. Those had to be with an inappropriate medication, a 24 percent greater risk of inpatient treated.
Although it is only an observational study, which does not allow to jerk conclusions on cause and effect, the authors. They have, however, the high number of study participants, and the fact that their results point in the same direction as previous studies in this area. You call for a better coordination of the care of older patients in order to minimize the risk for medication errors, adverse events and re-hospitalizations.
The scientists had studied for the study, data from 38.229 patients over 65 from 44 Irish General medical practices. They put the 45 criteria of the "Screening Tools for Older Persons’ Prescriptions" (STOP), in order to decide whether a drug regulation was appropriate.
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