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The Use of Medications with Anticholinergic Properties and Risk Factors for Their Use in Hospitalised Elderly Patients by Martin Wawruch; Agata Macugova; Lenka Kostkova; Jan Luha; Andrej Dukat; Jan Murin; Veronika Drobna; Lynda Wilton; Magdalena Kuzelova is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
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## ABSTRACT ## Purpose The aims of the present study were to evaluate the use of drugs with anticholinergic properties in elderly patients and to identify risk factors that increase the patient's chance of being given such medications. ## Methods The study was performed on a sample of 1636 patients aged ≥65 years hospitalised during the period between 1 January 2008 and 31 December 2009 in three municipal hospitals. To evaluate the factors influencing the use of anticholinergic medications, we compared two groups—users and non‐users of such drugs—in terms of sociodemographic and clinical characteristics as well as comorbid conditions. The most important risk factors were identified using the binary logistic regression model. ## Results Hospitalisation led to a significant increase in the prevalence of anticholinergic medication users, when comparing their occurrence at the time of hospital admission and discharge (10.5% and 14.2%, respectively; __p__ < 0.001). A significantly higher total number of prescribed drugs were found in the group of users compared with non‐users, at both hospital admission (7.2 ± 3.5 vs 5.7 ± 3.1; __p__ < 0.001) and discharge (8.7 ± 3.1 vs 7.5 ± 2.9; __p__
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- Author
- Martin Wawruch; Agata Macugova; Lenka Kostkova; Jan Luha; Andrej Dukat; Jan Murin; Veronika Drobna; Lynda Wilton; Magdalena Kuzelova
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); John Wiley & Sons Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 1053-8569)
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)