Cross-national comparison of medication use in Australian and Dutch nursing homes
Background: cross-national comparisons can be used to explore therapeutic areas and identify potential medication issues. Methods: we used cross-sectional pharmacy supply data to explore medication use for nursing home residents in Australia (AU n = 26 homes, 1,560 residents) and the Netherlands (NL n = 6 homes, 2,037 residents). Binary logistic regression analysis was used to calculate the sex and aged adjusted odds ratios (OR) and associated 95% confidence intervals with a flexible Bonferroni-Holm procedure used to adjust for multiple hypothesis testing. Results: total use of antipsychotics... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2017 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Taxis , K , Kochen , S , Wouters , H , Boersma , F , Gerard , M J , Mulder , H , Pavlovic , J , Stevens , G , McLachlan , A & Pont , L G 2017 , ' Cross-national comparison of medication use in Australian and Dutch nursing homes ' , Age and Ageing , vol. 46 , no. 2 , pp. 320-323 . https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afw218 |
Schlagwörter: | aged / nursing homes / drug utilisation / cross-national comparison / medication / older people / DRUG UTILIZATION / RESIDENTS / CARE |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-28620192 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://hdl.handle.net/11370/c60743c0-4c3c-4663-bec1-348af482d0a5 |