Prescriptions of Antipsychotics in Younger and Older Geriatric Patients with Polypharmacy, Their Safety, and the Impact of a Pharmaceutical-Medical Dialogue on Antipsychotic Use

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Geriatric patients are a particularly vulnerable and, at the same time, very heterogeneous group due to their multimorbidity and polypharmacy. Antipsychotics are often prescribed in their complex drug regimens, whereby the prescription of antipsychotics is not without controversy. To date, questions remain as to whether there are differences in the prescribing pattern, safety, and impact of a consultant pharmacist regarding antipsychotic use between younger and older geriatric patients in the heterogenic geriatric group. This monocentric study of 744 patients was based on the analysis of routine data collected from January 2018 to June 2020 in a geriatric department during a weekly pharmaceutical and medical consultation. The frequency of the prescription of antipsychotics in our study was 30.7%. Regarding antipsychotic safety and/or adverse drug reaction (ADR) antipsychotics, only a difference in terms of overuse in younger geriatric patients was found. The binary logistic regression analyses of geriatric patients with antipsychotics revealed that ADRs and drug–drug interactions (DDIs) were particularly related to the number of medications prescribed. The higher the number of prescribed drugs, the higher the risk of ADRs and DDIs. In 26.7% of geriatric patients on antipsychotics, the pharmacist made recommendations that were almost exclusively implemented by the physician, with no difference made between the two age groups. The prescriptions of antipsychotics in geriatric patients with polypharmacy, their safety, and the impact of a pharmaceutical-medical dialogue on the use of antipsychotics seem comparable between younger and older geriatric patients in the geriatric setting. Antipsychotics should always be critically considered and used cautiously, whereby a regular pharmaceutical-medical dialogue is recommended in geriatric settings.

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Gebauer, E. M., & Lukas, A. (2022). Prescriptions of Antipsychotics in Younger and Older Geriatric Patients with Polypharmacy, Their Safety, and the Impact of a Pharmaceutical-Medical Dialogue on Antipsychotic Use. Biomedicines, 10(12). https://doi.org/10.3390/biomedicines10123127

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