Drug Prescription and Delirium in Older Inpatients: Results From the Nationwide Multicenter Italian Delirium Day 2015-2016.

CONCLUSIONS: Polypharmacy is significantly associated with delirium only in surgical units, raising the issue of the relevance of medication review in different clinical settings. Specific drug classes are associated with delirium depending on the clinical setting and dementia diagnosis, suggesting the need to further explore this relationship. PMID: 30901165 [PubMed - in process]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30901165?dopt=Abstract

Source: Journal of Clinical Psychiatry - March 24, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Tags: J Clin Psychiatry Source Type: research