Polypharmacy and anticholinergic burden scales in older adults: a cross-sectional study among psychiatric outpatients in a tertiary care hospital | BMC Geriatrics
In this cross-sectional study, anticholinergic burden and polypharmacy were investigated in patients attending the psychiatry outpatient. We observed one-fifth of our study population taking five or more medications with an average of 3.16 drugs prescribed per patient, and on further analysis the polypharmacy and the seven anticholinergic burden scales were found to be positively associated. … Read more