Citation
Emeny, Rebecca T.; Batsis, John A.; & Morden, Nancy E. (2021). Intense Use of Fracture-Associated Drugs among Medicare Beneficiaries in Long-term Care. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 36(6), 1818-1820. PMCID: PMC8175544Abstract
Among older adults, common efforts to assess polypharmacy (multiple medications) often focus on simple drug count. Our past work exploring receipt of fractureassociated drugs (FADs) and fractures suggests specific drug combinations may matter more than absolute drug count. We found, in the general Medicare population, hip fracture risk rises steeply as people receive increasing numbers of concurrent FADs, yet this risk decreases slightly with higher intensity of non-FADs. To extend this previous work, we measure FAD and concurrent FAD receipt for a population particularly vulnerable to adverse drug effects—elderly living in long-term care (LTC).2 We quantify FAD exposure in this population and compare it with the community-dwelling population to begin exploring an important potentially avoidable risk.URL
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11606-020-05859-2Reference Type
Journal ArticleYear Published
2021Journal Title
Journal of General Internal MedicineAuthor(s)
Emeny, Rebecca T.Batsis, John A.
Morden, Nancy E.