Pharmacotherapy as major risk factor of falls - analysis of 12 months experience in hospitals in South Bohemia

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11160%2F19%3A10400848" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11160/19:10400848 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/60076658:12110/19:43898375

Result on the web

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=uO9YIJAn-Q" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=uO9YIJAn-Q</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.32725/jab.2019.001" target="_blank" >10.32725/jab.2019.001</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Pharmacotherapy as major risk factor of falls - analysis of 12 months experience in hospitals in South Bohemia

Original language description

This study aimed to analyze the effect of fall risk-increasing drugs (FRIDs) and drug-related factors relative to falls through clinical pharmacy service in hospitalized patients, focusing on the relevance of clinical pharmacist evaluation in the context of physician assessment. A prospective study of inpatient falls was conducted in 2017 retrieving data from 4 hospitals in South Bohemia, Czech Republic. An online database was developed to collect patient and fall-related data, and fall evaluation records. Healthcare professionals classified the overall effect of drugs on falls using Likert scale. Univariate and multivariate correlations were performed with a significance level of p &lt; 0.05. Out of the total 280 falls (mean age of patients 77.0 years), a mean of 2.8 diagnoses with fall-related risk, 8.8 drugs, and 4.1 FRIDs per fall were identified. Incidence of falls decreased quarterly (p &lt; 0.001). Use of FRIDs were positively associated with increasing age (p = 0.007). Clinical pharmacists were more likely to identify pharmacotherapy as the relevant fall-related risk, compared to physicians evaluation (p &lt; 0.001). An increasing total number of prescribed drugs as well as higher number of FRIDs increased the suspicion in both professionals in the context of drug-related causes of falls.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30104 - Pharmacology and pharmacy

Project

<a href="/en/project/NV16-33463A" target="_blank" >NV16-33463A: Analysis of factors influencing the risk of falls - opportunities of involvement of nurses and pharmacists in minimization of the risk</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Applied Biomedicine

ISSN

1214-021X

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

17

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

53-60

UT code for WoS article

000493806600008

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85066937001