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| Title |
Prescribing for older people discharged from the acute sector to residential aged‐care facilities
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Internal Medicine Journal, October 2014
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| DOI | 10.1111/imj.12553 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
P. Hopcroft, N. M. Peel, A. Poudel, I. A. Scott, L. C. Gray, R. E. Hubbard |
| Abstract |
For frail older people, admission to hospital is an opportunity to review the indications for specific medications. This research investigates prescribing for 206 older people discharged into residential aged care facilities from 11 acute care hospitals in Australia. Patients had multiple comorbidities (mean 6), high levels of dependency, and were prescribed a mean of 7.2 regular medications at admission to hospital and 8.1 medications on discharge, with hyper-polypharmacy (≥10 drugs) increasing from 24.3% to 32.5%. Many drugs were preventive medications whose time until benefit was likely to exceed the expected lifespan. In summary, frail patients continue to be exposed to extensive polypharmacy and medications with uncertain risk-benefit ratio. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 8 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Spain | 4 | 50% |
| Australia | 1 | 13% |
| Unknown | 3 | 38% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 6 | 75% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 25% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 35 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Spain | 1 | 3% |
| Unknown | 34 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 7 | 20% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 6 | 17% |
| Student > Master | 4 | 11% |
| Researcher | 4 | 11% |
| Other | 3 | 9% |
| Other | 7 | 20% |
| Unknown | 4 | 11% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Nursing and Health Professions | 9 | 26% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 8 | 23% |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 7 | 20% |
| Social Sciences | 3 | 9% |
| Computer Science | 1 | 3% |
| Other | 1 | 3% |
| Unknown | 6 | 17% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 25 October 2014.
All research outputs
#7,057,506
of 24,549,201 outputs
Outputs from Internal Medicine Journal
#716
of 2,464 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#71,652
of 260,451 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Internal Medicine Journal
#16
of 33 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 24,549,201 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 69th percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 2,464 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 7.2. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 69% of its peers.
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