Caroline Krüger, Ingmar Schäfer, Hendrik van den Bussche, Horst Bickel, Tobias Dreischulte, Angela Fuchs, Hans-Helmut König, Wolfgang Maier, Karola Mergenthal, Steffi Gerlinde Riedel-Heller, Gerhard Schön, Siegfried Weyerer, Birgitt Wiese, Wolfgang von Renteln-Kruse, Claudia Langebrake, Martin Scherer
- Objectives Our study aimed to assess the frequency of potentially inappropriate medication (PIM) use (according to three PIM lists) and to examine the association between PIM use and cognitive function among participants in the MultiCare cohort. Design MultiCare is conducted as a longitudinal, multicentre, observational cohort study. Setting The MultiCare study is located in eight different study centres in Germany. Participants 3189 patients (59.3% female). Primary and secondary outcome measures The study had a cross-sectional design using baseline data from the German MultiCare study. Prescribed and over-the-counter drugs were classified using FORTA (Fit fOR The Aged), PRISCUS (Latin for ‘time-honoured’) and EU(7)-PIM lists. A mixed-effect multivariate linear regression was performed to calculate the association between PIM use patients’ cognitive function (measured with (LDST)). Results Patients (3189) used 2152 FORTA PIM (mean 0.9±1.03 per patient), 936 PRISCUS PIM (0.3±0.58) and 4311 EU(7)-PIM (1.4±1.29). The most common FORTA PIM was phenprocoumon (13.8%); the most prevalent PRISCUS PIM was amitriptyline (2.8%); the most common EU(7)-PIM was omeprazole (14.0%). The lists rate PIM differently, with an overall overlap of 6.6%. Increasing use of PIM is significantly associated with reduced cognitive function that was detected with a correlation coefficient of −0.60 for FORTA PIM (p=0.002), −0.72 for PRISCUS PIM (p=0.025) and −0.44 for EU(7)-PIM (p=0.005). Conclusion We identified PIM using FORTA, PRISCUS and EU(7)-PIM lists differently and found that PIM use is associated with cognitive impairment according to LDST, whereby the FORTA list best explained cognitive decline for the German population. These findings are consistent with a negative impact of PIM use on multimorbid elderly patient outcomes.
Metadaten| Author: | Caroline Krüger, Ingmar SchäferGND, Hendrik van den BusscheORCiDGND, Horst BickelGND, Tobias Dreischulte, Angela FuchsGND, Hans-Helmut König, Wolfgang Maier, Karola MergenthalGND, Steffi Gerlinde Riedel-HellerORCiDGND, Gerhard SchönORCiDGND, Siegfried Weyerer, Birgitt WieseORCiDGND, Wolfgang von Renteln-KruseGND, Claudia LangebrakeGND, Martin SchererGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-630190 |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-050344 |
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| ISSN: | 2044-6055 |
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| Parent Title (English): | BMJ open |
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| Publisher: | BMJ Publishing Group |
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| Place of publication: | London |
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| Document Type: | Article |
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| Language: | English |
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| Date of Publication (online): | 2021/09/17 |
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| Date of first Publication: | 2021/09/17 |
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| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
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| Release Date: | 2022/04/11 |
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| Volume: | 11 |
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| Issue: | 9, art. e050344 |
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| Page Number: | 10 |
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| First Page: | 1 |
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| Last Page: | 10 |
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| Note: | The study was funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (grant numbers 01ET0725-31 and 01ET1006A-K). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish or preparation of the manuscript. |
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| HeBIS-PPN: | 494331240 |
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| Institutes: | Medizin |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 61 Medizin und Gesundheit / 610 Medizin und Gesundheit |
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| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
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| Licence (English): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung-Nicht kommerziell 4.0 |
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