[Psychopharmacological drug treatment in Munich nursing homes].
The survey of Munich nursing homes with 888 residents showed that 56.4% received psychotropic drugs and a twice as frequent prescription of antipsychotics to residents of double rooms than of single rooms. In a subsample of 397 residents the last review of the prescriptions of 17.5% of the psychotropic drugs was at least 3 months to partly years ago. Based on the American Beers-criteria 13.6% of the consumers of psychotropic drugs received psychotropic drugs, which preferably should not be taken by older people.
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Institut für Medizinische Informationsverarbeitung Biometrie und Epidemiologie, Marchioninistr 15, 81377, München, Germany.
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D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003625:Data Collection; D003704:Dementia / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000453:epidemiology*; D011307:Drug Prescriptions / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D005858:Germany / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008508:Medication Errors / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009735:Nursing Homes / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians' / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D015995:Prevalence; D011619:Psychotropic Drugs / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D018570:Risk Assessment / Q000379:methods*; D012307:Risk Factors
D011619:Psychotropic Drugs