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Costs of medication in older patients: before and after comprehensive geriatric assessment

Overview of attention for article published in Clinical Interventions in Aging, April 2018
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Title
Costs of medication in older patients: before and after comprehensive geriatric assessment
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Clinical Interventions in Aging, April 2018
DOI 10.2147/cia.s159966
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Gulcin Done Unutmaz, Pinar Soysal, Busra Tuven, Ahmet Turan Isik

Abstract

Polypharmacy and inappropriate drug use cause numerous complications, such as cognitive impairment, frailty, falls, and functional dependence. The present study aimed to determine the effect of the comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) on polypharmacy, potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs) and potential prescribing omissions (PPOs), and to evaluate the economic reflections of medication changes. One thousand five hundred and seventy-nine older patients, who had undergone CGA, were retrospectively evaluated. The drugs, drug groups, and number of drugs that the patients used were recorded. Appropriate drug therapy was identified by both CGA and STOPP/START criteria. Based on these criteria, PIMs were discontinued and PPOs were started. The monthly cost of these drugs was calculated separately for PIMs and PPOs by using the drugstore records. After CGA, while the prevalence of non-polypharmacy was increased from 43.3% to 65.6%, the prevalence of polypharmacy and hyperpolypharmacy was decreased from 56.7% to 34.4% and 12.0% to 3.6%, respectively. The three most common PIMs discontinued were proton pump inhibitors, anti-dementia drugs, and antipsychotics, respectively. However, the most common PPOs started were vitamin D and B12 supplements, and anti-depressants. After CGA, monthly saved total per capita cost of PIMs was US$12.8 and monthly increased total per capita cost of PPOs was $5.6. It was demonstrated that prevalence of polypharmacy, PIM, and PPO could be decreased by CGA including START/STOPP criteria in older adults. Furthermore, this will have beneficial effects on economical parameters due to decreasing drug-related health care costs.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 137 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 18 13%
Student > Bachelor 13 9%
Researcher 11 8%
Student > Ph. D. Student 11 8%
Other 9 7%
Other 35 26%
Unknown 40 29%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 26 19%
Nursing and Health Professions 22 16%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 18 13%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 6 4%
Business, Management and Accounting 3 2%
Other 17 12%
Unknown 45 33%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 29. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 13 May 2018.
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#1,347,379
of 25,584,565 outputs
Outputs from Clinical Interventions in Aging
#134
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#29,355
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Outputs of similar age from Clinical Interventions in Aging
#5
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