ArticleBMC geriatrics2020
Prevalence of medication-related falls in 200 consecutive elderly patients with hip fractures: a cross-sectional study.
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- Potentially inappropriate prescribing and falls-risk increasing drugs in people who have experienced a fall: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Age and ageing · 2025Pooled it
- Beneficial outcomes of medication review in patients with hip fractures: a systematic review.European geriatric medicine · 2025Pooled it
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- Pharmacist-led deprescribing to improve medication safety in older patients with hip fractures.BMC geriatrics · 2025Article
- Functional status of Iranian older adults: a community-based assessment using EASY-care 2010.BMC geriatrics · 2025Article
- Management of fall-risk-increasing drugs in Australian aged care residents: a retrospective cross-sectional study.BMC geriatrics · 2025Article
- Assessing the Efficacy of the ARMOR Tool-Based Deprescribing Intervention for Fall Risk Reduction in Older Patients Taking Fall Risk-Increasing Drugs (DeFRID Trial): Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2024Article
- Effects of medication management in geriatric patients who have fallen: results of the EMMA mixed-methods study.Age and ageing · 2024Article
- Falls in hospitalized older adults and the use of fall risk-increasing drugs and anticholinergic medications in Colombia: a case‒control study.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2024Article
- Cost and time of hospitalization for elderly people with bone fractures in a reference hospital.Einstein (Sao Paulo, Brazil) · 2024Article
- Chronic kidney disease and polypharmacy as risk factors for recurrent falls in a nursing home population.Health science reports · 2023Article
- Clinical pharmacist intervention to improve medication safety for hip fracture patients through secondary and primary care settings: a nonrandomised controlled trial.Journal of orthopaedic surgery and research · 2023Article
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- The patterns and implications of potentially suboptimal medicine regimens among older adults: a narrative review.Therapeutic advances in drug safety · 2022Review
- Polypharmacy and potential drug-drug interactions among Greenland's care home residents.Therapeutic advances in drug safety · 2022Article
- Assessment of Fall Risk in Elderly Rural Population.Maedica · 2021Article
- Association between fractures and traditional risk factors for osteoporosis and low bone mineral density in patients with obesity.Archives of endocrinology and metabolism · 2021Article
- Antithrombotic therapy in patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement: the complexity of the elderly.European journal of preventive cardiology · 2021Article
- Impaired Oral Health in Older Orthopaedic In-Care Patients: The Influence of Medication and Morbidity.Clinical interventions in aging · 2021Article
- Helicobacter pylori Related Diseases and Osteoporotic Fractures (Narrative Review).Journal of clinical medicine · 2020Review
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Abstract
backgroundHip fractures constitute a major health problem in elderly people and are often fall-related. Several factors can contribute to a fall episode leading to hip fracture, including fall-risk-increasing drugs (FRIDs), which are often used by elderly people. We aimed to investigate the prevalence of medication-related falls and to assess the role of FRIDs and potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs) in a population of elderly patients hospitalized for a hip fracture.
methodsWe reviewed the patient records of 200 consecutive patients, aged ≥65 years, who were admitted for a hip fracture and evaluated whether medications were likely to have contributed to the fall episode. PIMs were identified using the Screening Tool of Older Persons' Prescriptions version 2 (STOPP) and by evaluating indications, contra-indications and interactions of the prescribed medications for each patient.
resultsFRIDs were used by 175 patients (87.5%). Medications were considered a likely contributor to the fall in 82 patients (41%). These were most often psychotropic medications alone or in combination with antihypertensives and/or diuretics. The 82 patients with suspected medication-related falls used more medications, FRIDs and PIMs than the rest of the patients, and in 74 (90%) of the 82 patients, at least one medication considered to be a contributor to the fall was also a PIM.
conclusionsThe prevalence of suspected medication-related falls was 41%. It seems likely that a medication review could have reduced, though not eliminated, the risk of falling in this group of patients.
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