Prescribing patterns observed in registered nursing homes and long-stay geriatric wards.
Details of medication prescribed to 400 elderly patients in 18 registered nursing homes and 233 patients in 11 long-stay geriatric wards were obtained. Excluding laxatives, there was a mean of 2.15 medications prescribed for the long-stay patients, compared to 2.62 items for the nursing-home population. There was apparent over-prescribing of certain drugs within the nursing-home population.
D000368:Aged; D011307:Drug Prescriptions; D004363:Drug Utilization; D005260:Female; D006757:Hospital Units; D006801:Humans; D008134:Long-Term Care; D008297:Male; D009735:Nursing Homes; D012606:Scotland