Drug Burden Index in Older Adults with Psychiatric Illnesses: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Published in: Drugs - real world outcomes (2023)

The study showed that anticholinergic and sedative medication exposure measured by DBI was associated with higher levels of dependency on the Katz ADL index in a sample of older adults with psychiatric illnesses from an aged-care home.

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