Non-random relations in drug use expressed as patterns comprising prescription and over-the-counter drugs in multimorbid elderly patients in primary care: Data of the exploratory analysis of the multicentre, observational cohort study MultiCare.

Caroline KrügerIngmar SchäferHendrik van den BusscheMichael BaehrHorst BickelAngela FuchsJochen GensichenWolfgang MaierSteffi G Riedel-HellerHans-Helmut KönigAnne DahlhausGerhard SchönSiegfried WeyererBirgitt WieseWolfgang von Renteln-KruseClaudia LangebrakeMartin Scherer

Published in: The European journal of general practice (2021)

The drug patterns demonstrate non-random relations in drug use in multimorbid elderly patients and systematic associations between drug patterns and multimorbidity clusters were found in primary care.

Keyphrases

primary care
general practice
electronic health record
randomized controlled trial
emergency department
machine learning
adverse drug
double blind