| dc.rights.license | CC-BY-NC-ND | |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Gemmeke, M. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Allababidi, Nour | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-03-01T01:01:00Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-03-01T01:01:00Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2024 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://studenttheses.uu.nl/handle/20.500.12932/46101 | |
| dc.description.abstract | We found that nearly a quarter of the total population used four or more medications. However, no significant association was found between the use of polypharmacy and falls over a one-year follow-up period. The correlation was influenced by different confounding factors and especially by the use of FRIDs. Further investigation with a vulnerable population and complete data on medication adherence is needed. If there is study involving an intervention design for medication review, it would be advisable to give more consideration to the role of FRIDs | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Utrecht University | |
| dc.language.iso | EN | |
| dc.subject | Falling in older persons is a challenging health problem due to their common
occurrence and the associated severity. Medication usage, particularly polypharmacy (using four or
more medications simultaneously), is identified as a substantial contributor to falls. Importantly, the
correlation between polypharmacy and falls may be more associated with the use of fall risk-
increasing drugs (FRIDs) than with polypharmacy alone. | |
| dc.title | The association between polypharmacy and falls and the role of fall-risk-increasing drugs | |
| dc.type.content | Master Thesis | |
| dc.rights.accessrights | Open Access | |
| dc.subject.keywords | polypharmacy, falls, older persons, cox-regression. | |
| dc.subject.courseuu | Farmacie | |
| dc.thesis.id | 28703 | |
