Journal article
Does ongoing general practitioner care in elderly patients help reduce the risk of unplanned hospitalization related to Beers potentially inappropriate medications?
SD Price, CDAJ Holman, FM Sanfilippo, JD Emery
Geriatrics and Gerontology International | WILEY-BLACKWELL | Published : 2015
DOI: 10.1111/ggi.12400
Abstract
Aim: To compare estimates of unplanned hospitalizations associated with exposure to Beers potentially inappropriate medications (PIM) in elderly people receiving different levels of ongoing general practitioner (GP) care. Methods: Using the pharmaceutical claims and other linked health data of 245436 Western Australians aged ≥65years with one or more claims for a medication from a PIM-related drug class (1993-2005), we applied an enhanced case-time-control design to obtain odds ratios (OR) for unplanned hospitalization, from which attributable fractions, numbers, proportions and rates of admissions related to PIM exposure were derived. Results: Overall, 383150 unplanned hospitalizations ("in..
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Funding Acknowledgements
We thank the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council for funding the research; the Western Australian Department of Health (DoH) and Australian Department of Health and Ageing for supplying the project data; and the Data Linkage Branch (DoH) for undertaking the record linkage.