The Burden Of Psychotropic And Anticholinergic Medicines Use In Care Homes: Population-Based Analysis In 147 Care Homes
AGE AND AGEING(2021)
摘要
Background: older people living in care-homes are particularly vulnerable to adverse effects of psychotropic and anticholinergic drugs.Methods: anonymised dispensed prescription data from all 4,478 residents aged >= 60 years in 147 care-homes in two Scottish health boards were analysed. Psychotropic medicines examined were antipsychotics, antidepressants, hypnotic/anxiolytics, opioids and gabapentinoids. Anticholinergic burden was measured using the modified anticholinergic risk scale (mARS). Variation between care-homes and associations with individual and care-home characteristics were examined using multilevel logistic regression.Results: 63.5% of residents were prescribed at least one psychotropic drug, and 27.0% two or more, most commonly antidepressants (41.6%), opioids (20.3%), hypnotic/anxiolytics (16.9%) and antipsychotics (16.7%). 48.1% were prescribed an anticholinergic drug, and 12.1% had high anticholinergic burden (mARS >= 3). Variation between care-homes was high for antipsychotics (intra-cluster correlation coefficient [ICC] 8.2%) and hypnotics/anxiolytics (ICC=7.3%), and moderate for antidepressants (ICC=4.7%) and anticholinergics (ICC=2.8%). Prescribing of all drugs was lower in the oldest old. People with dementia were more likely to be prescribed antipsychotics (adjusted OR=1.45, 95%CI 1.23-1.71) but less likely to be prescribed anticholinergics (aOR=0.61, 95%CI 0.51-0.74). Prescribing of antipsychotics was higher in Tayside (aOR=1.52, 95%CI 1.20-1.92), whereas prescribing of antidepressants (particularly tricyclic-related) was lower (aOR=0.66, 95%CI 0.56-0.79). There was no association with care-home regulator quality scores.Conclusion: care-home residents have high psychotropic and anticholinergic burden, with considerable variation between care-homes that is not related to existing measures of quality of care. Research to better understand variation between care-homes and the interaction with local prescribing cultures is needed.
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psychotropic prescribing, anticholinergic drugs, dementia, care-homes, prescribing safety, older people
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