Medications and diagnoses in relation to falls in a long-term care facility.
The association between falls, drugs, and diagnoses in elderly residents of a long-term care facility was explored using case-control methodology. The odds of being a faller rather than a control were significant (P less than .01) for those taking antidepressants, sedatives/hypnotics, or vasodilators, and for those with osteoarthritis or depression. When drug/diagnosis subgroups were examined, these same drug classes and diagnoses had high-odds ratios in the largest numbers of subgroups. In general, risk of falling appeared to be more strongly associated with drugs than with diagnoses.
D000058:Accidental Falls; D000059:Accidents; D000368:Aged; D000928:Antidepressive Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D003863:Depression; D004358:Drug Therapy; D006801:Humans; D006993:Hypnotics and Sedatives / Q000627:therapeutic use; D008396:Maryland; D009735:Nursing Homes; D010003:Osteoarthritis / Q000503:physiopathology; D014665:Vasodilator Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use
D000928:Antidepressive Agents; D006993:Hypnotics and Sedatives; D014665:Vasodilator Agents