Identifying prescribing cascades in Alzheimer's disease and related dementias: The calcium channel blocker-diuretic prescribing cascade.
Sonal SinghNoelle M CocorosKevin HaynesVinit P NairThomas P HarkinsPaula A RochonRichard PlattInna DashevskyJuliane ReynoldsKathleen M MazorSarah BloomstoneKathryn AnzuoniSybil L CrawfordJerry H GurwitzPublished in: Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety (2021)
We describe an approach to identify prescribing cascades in persons with ADRD, which can be used to assess the proportion of prescribing cascades in large cohorts. We determined the proportion of CCB-diuretic prescribing cascades was low.