Screening criteria of potentially inappropriate medications and associations of exposure timing with incident hospital admissions among older adults in a rural community hospital
Chih-Hsueh Lin, Hsin-Hui Tsai, Chun-Wei Tu, Shelly L. Gray, Hsiang-Wen Lin · 2025
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Chih-Hsueh Lin and co-authors studied drugs that may be unfit for older adults at a rural hospital in Taiwan, in a 2025 paper. Such drugs can do more harm than good in old age, yet rural areas have fewer resources and little past study. The team used two screening lists, one built for Taiwan and one from the United States, to count how often these drugs were given.
Records covered a full year and 8,234 older outpatients. About 58 percent got at least one flagged drug by either list. A second study within the study then compared drug exposure in the month before a hospital stay with exposure in three earlier windows. Recent exposure tied to higher odds of urgent admission.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Chih-Hsueh Lin, Hsin-Hui Tsai, Chun-Wei Tu, Shelly L. Gray, Hsiang-Wen Lin |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 50 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |