Reassessment of Treatments in a Long-Term Care Unit

The risks of iatrogenic medication related adverse events are high among older patients. Assessing prescriptions is critical to prevent overusing, underusing, or misusing medications. The aim of this study is to evaluate the prescription reassessment in older patients hospitalized in long-term care...

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Autores principales: Ladjouzi, Nadia, Romdhani, Ahmed, Zouloumis, Georges, Ould Ouali, Cid, Jhouri, Aziza, Schlatter, Joël
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2023
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Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9932759/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36819230
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23337214231156030
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author Ladjouzi, Nadia
Romdhani, Ahmed
Zouloumis, Georges
Ould Ouali, Cid
Jhouri, Aziza
Schlatter, Joël
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description The risks of iatrogenic medication related adverse events are high among older patients. Assessing prescriptions is critical to prevent overusing, underusing, or misusing medications. The aim of this study is to evaluate the prescription reassessment in older patients hospitalized in long-term care unit. Among the 30 patients (M(age) = 83 years, woman 66%), polymedication was present, patients taking 5 to 18 drugs (mean 11 drugs). The length of stay varied from 92 days to 4.5 years (mean 564 ± 430 days). The prescription reassessment of the patients hospitalized in our long-term care unit varied from 1 to 125 days with a mean of 16 days. Plan the prescription reassessment could reduce the iatrogenic medication in weakened patients.
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spelling pubmed-99327592023-02-17 Reassessment of Treatments in a Long-Term Care Unit Ladjouzi, Nadia Romdhani, Ahmed Zouloumis, Georges Ould Ouali, Cid Jhouri, Aziza Schlatter, Joël Gerontol Geriatr Med Brief Report The risks of iatrogenic medication related adverse events are high among older patients. Assessing prescriptions is critical to prevent overusing, underusing, or misusing medications. The aim of this study is to evaluate the prescription reassessment in older patients hospitalized in long-term care unit. Among the 30 patients (M(age) = 83 years, woman 66%), polymedication was present, patients taking 5 to 18 drugs (mean 11 drugs). The length of stay varied from 92 days to 4.5 years (mean 564 ± 430 days). The prescription reassessment of the patients hospitalized in our long-term care unit varied from 1 to 125 days with a mean of 16 days. Plan the prescription reassessment could reduce the iatrogenic medication in weakened patients. SAGE Publications 2023-02-14 /pmc/articles/PMC9932759/ /pubmed/36819230 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23337214231156030 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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