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Predictors of falls and hospital admissions in people with cognitive impairment in day-care: role of multimorbidity, polypharmacy, and potentially inappropriate medication
BACKGROUND: Multimorbidity, polypharmacy, and potentially inappropriate medication (PIM) pose challenges for the care of people with cognitive impairment. The aim of the present study is to explore whether multimorbidity, polypharmacy, and PIM predict falls and hospital admissions in a sample of peo...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9387045/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35982409 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-022-03346-3 |
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author | Scheel, Jennifer Luttenberger, Katharina Graessel, Elmar Kratzer, André Donath, Carolin |
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description | BACKGROUND: Multimorbidity, polypharmacy, and potentially inappropriate medication (PIM) pose challenges for the care of people with cognitive impairment. The aim of the present study is to explore whether multimorbidity, polypharmacy, and PIM predict falls and hospital admissions in a sample of people with cognitive impairment in day-care centers in Germany. METHODS: We used data from the German day-care study (multicenter longitudinal study, n = 433). Multimorbidity was defined as ≥ 2 chronic diseases. Polypharmacy was defined as prescriptions to ≥ 5 drugs. Potentially inappropriate medication was defined as scoring on the PRISCUS list. Binary logistic regression analyses were computed to determine whether multimorbidity, polypharmacy, and potentially inappropriate medication at t0 predicted falls and hospital admissions as outcomes at t1 (six months later). RESULTS: The rate of multimorbidity and polypharmacy was 87.8% and 60.3%, respectively. 15.9% of the people with cognitive impairment received PIM / PRISCUS-listed drugs, 43.6% ACB-listed drugs, and 52.7% CNS depressant drugs. Falls and hospital admissions during follow-up were prevalent in 19.4% and 24.7% of the people with cognitive impairment. Both were significantly predicted by the total number of drugs (falls: OR = 1.152, p = 0.001, overall model: p < 0.001; hospital admissions: OR = 1.103, p = 0.020, overall model: p = 0.001), even if regression analyses were controlled for the number of comorbidities. CONCLUSIONS: Polypharmacy and potentially inappropriate medication are highly prevalent in people with cognitive impairment in German day-care centers. The number of drugs and appropriateness of medication seem to be crucial for the risk of falls and hospital admissions. Polypharmacy and PIM should be critically reviewed by healthcare providers and avoided as much as and whenever possible. TRIAL REGISTRATION: ISRCTN16412551, 30 July 2014, registered partly retrospectively. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12877-022-03346-3. |
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spelling | pubmed-93870452022-08-19 Predictors of falls and hospital admissions in people with cognitive impairment in day-care: role of multimorbidity, polypharmacy, and potentially inappropriate medication Scheel, Jennifer Luttenberger, Katharina Graessel, Elmar Kratzer, André Donath, Carolin BMC Geriatr Research BACKGROUND: Multimorbidity, polypharmacy, and potentially inappropriate medication (PIM) pose challenges for the care of people with cognitive impairment. The aim of the present study is to explore whether multimorbidity, polypharmacy, and PIM predict falls and hospital admissions in a sample of people with cognitive impairment in day-care centers in Germany. METHODS: We used data from the German day-care study (multicenter longitudinal study, n = 433). Multimorbidity was defined as ≥ 2 chronic diseases. Polypharmacy was defined as prescriptions to ≥ 5 drugs. Potentially inappropriate medication was defined as scoring on the PRISCUS list. Binary logistic regression analyses were computed to determine whether multimorbidity, polypharmacy, and potentially inappropriate medication at t0 predicted falls and hospital admissions as outcomes at t1 (six months later). RESULTS: The rate of multimorbidity and polypharmacy was 87.8% and 60.3%, respectively. 15.9% of the people with cognitive impairment received PIM / PRISCUS-listed drugs, 43.6% ACB-listed drugs, and 52.7% CNS depressant drugs. Falls and hospital admissions during follow-up were prevalent in 19.4% and 24.7% of the people with cognitive impairment. Both were significantly predicted by the total number of drugs (falls: OR = 1.152, p = 0.001, overall model: p < 0.001; hospital admissions: OR = 1.103, p = 0.020, overall model: p = 0.001), even if regression analyses were controlled for the number of comorbidities. CONCLUSIONS: Polypharmacy and potentially inappropriate medication are highly prevalent in people with cognitive impairment in German day-care centers. The number of drugs and appropriateness of medication seem to be crucial for the risk of falls and hospital admissions. Polypharmacy and PIM should be critically reviewed by healthcare providers and avoided as much as and whenever possible. TRIAL REGISTRATION: ISRCTN16412551, 30 July 2014, registered partly retrospectively. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12877-022-03346-3. BioMed Central 2022-08-18 /pmc/articles/PMC9387045/ /pubmed/35982409 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-022-03346-3 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Scheel, Jennifer Luttenberger, Katharina Graessel, Elmar Kratzer, André Donath, Carolin Predictors of falls and hospital admissions in people with cognitive impairment in day-care: role of multimorbidity, polypharmacy, and potentially inappropriate medication |
title | Predictors of falls and hospital admissions in people with cognitive impairment in day-care: role of multimorbidity, polypharmacy, and potentially inappropriate medication |
title_full | Predictors of falls and hospital admissions in people with cognitive impairment in day-care: role of multimorbidity, polypharmacy, and potentially inappropriate medication |
title_fullStr | Predictors of falls and hospital admissions in people with cognitive impairment in day-care: role of multimorbidity, polypharmacy, and potentially inappropriate medication |
title_full_unstemmed | Predictors of falls and hospital admissions in people with cognitive impairment in day-care: role of multimorbidity, polypharmacy, and potentially inappropriate medication |
title_short | Predictors of falls and hospital admissions in people with cognitive impairment in day-care: role of multimorbidity, polypharmacy, and potentially inappropriate medication |
title_sort | predictors of falls and hospital admissions in people with cognitive impairment in day-care: role of multimorbidity, polypharmacy, and potentially inappropriate medication |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9387045/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35982409 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-022-03346-3 |
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