Anticholinergic burden measures, symptoms, and fall-associated risk in older adults with polypharmacy: development and validation of a prognostic model - Dinh TS, Meid AD, Rudolf H, Brueckle MS, Gonz ález-González AI, Bencheva V, Gogolin M, Snell KIE, Elders PJM, Thuermann PA, Donner-Banzhoff N, Blom JW, van den Akker M, Gerlach FM, Harder S, Thiem U, Glasziou PP, Haefeli WE, Muth C.

BACKGROUND: Anticholinergic burden has been associated with adverse outcomes such as falls. To date, no gold standard measure has been identified to assess anticholinergic burden, and no conclusion has been drawn on which of the different measure algorithm...
Source: SafetyLit - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Elder Adults Source Type: news