Anticholinergic burden in older adult inpatients: patterns from admission to discharge and associations with hospital outcomes
Background: Anticholinergic medications are associated with adverse outcomes in older adults and should be prescribed cautiously. We describe the Anticholinergic Risk Scale (ARS) scores of older inpatients and associations with outcomes. Methods: We included all emergency, first admissions of adults...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2021-05-01
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| Series: | Therapeutic Advances in Drug Safety |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/20420986211012592 |