Takumi Taniguchi, Risa Inagaki, Takehiro Michikawa, Soya Kawabata, Masahiro Yoshida, Yusuke Kawano, Mitsuhiro Morita, Kazue Hayakawa, Mitsunaga Iwata, Shigeki Yamada, Nobuyuki Fujita
INTRODUCTION: Fractures are often caused by falls in older people. Among various causes of falls, polypharmacy is known to be a risk of falls. Furthermore, potentially inappropriate medicines (PIMs), which interact with polypharmacy, include the drugs involved in falls. Here, we primarily aimed to investigate the prescribed drugs in older surgical patients with extremity fractures to determine the frequency of polypharmacy and identify PIMs. The second aim was to clarify the characterization of prescribed drugs of older patients with hip fracture...
2024: Geriatric Orthopaedic Surgery & Rehabilitation