Erschienen in:
01.02.2016 | Capsule Commentary
Capsule Commentary on Scales et al., Unintentional Continuation of Medications Intended for Acute Illness After Hospital Discharge: A Population-Based Cohort Study
verfasst von:
Shoshana J. Herzig, MD, MPH
Erschienen in:
Journal of General Internal Medicine
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Ausgabe 2/2016
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Excerpt
In the present issue of
JGIM, Scales et al.
1 use a cohort of more than one million Canadian patients > 65 years of age to identify rates and predictors of unintentional continuation of medications initiated during an acute hospitalization. Although the rates of unintentional continuation are relatively small, when considering the number of patients hospitalized annually, they translate into large numbers of patients with ongoing inadvertent exposure, and even larger costs, with an estimated total 1-year cost of over $18 million. …