Medication Profiles of Patients with Cognitive Impairment and High Anticholinergic Burden

Ariel R. Green,Liza M. Reifler,Cynthia M. Boyd,Linda A. Weffald,Elizabeth A. Bayliss

Medication Profiles of Patients with Cognitive Impairment and High Anticholinergic Burden

2018

Ariel R. Green
Liza M. Reifler
Cynthia M. Boyd
Linda A. Weffald
Elizabeth A. Bayliss

Background Drugs with anticholinergic properties are considered potentially inappropriate in patients with cognitive impairment because harms—including delirium, falls, and fractures—may outweigh benefits.

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Diabetes mellitus
Delirium
Physical therapy
Cognition
Medicine
Anticholinergic
Intensive care medicine
Cohort study
Pharmacotherapy
Retrospective cohort study
cognitive impairment
Dementia

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