Anticholinergic burden in older adult inpatients: patterns from admission to discharge and associations with hospital outcomes
Publication: Sage Journals
Maria Herrero-Zazo, Rachel Berry, Emma Bines, Debi Bhattacharya, Phyo K. Myint, Victoria L. Keevil
6 May 2021
Summary
Researchers describe how commonly medicines which block the chemical acetylcholine are prescribed to older adults admitted to hospital as an emergency and explore links between these medicines and death during or soon after hospital admission. Researchers use data collected as part of routine medical care at one university hospital to describe how often these medicines are prescribed in a large sample of older adults admitted to hospital as an emergency. They looked at the medicines patients are prescribed on admission to the hospital and also when they are later discharged.