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Trends in Delirium and New Antipsychotic and Benzodiazepine Use Among Hospitalized Older Adults Before and After the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic

JAMA Network Open · 7 authors, 8 centres

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Increases were most prominent during pandemic waves and remained elevated even when community COVID-19 cases were low.

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Increases were most prominent during pandemic waves and remained elevated even when community COVID-19 cases were low. Sensitivity analyses excluding COVID-19 admissions showed similar results.

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geriatrics

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ORIGINAL PAPER

PMC10407689

Trends in Delirium and New Antipsychotic and Benzodiazepine Use Among Hospitalized Older Adults Before and After the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic

JAMA Network Open

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ABSTRACT

This cross-sectional study compares rates of delirium and new antipsychotic and benzodiazepine prescriptions before and during the COVID-19 pandemic among hospitalized patients aged 66 years or older in Ontario, Canada.

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Christina Reppas-Rindlisbacher, Alexa Boblitz, Robert A. Fowler et al.. Trends in Delirium and New Antipsychotic and Benzodiazepine Use Among Hospitalized Older Adults Before and After the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic. JAMA Network Open. (2023). https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.27750

AUTHORS

7 · 8 CENTRES

Christina Reppas-Rindlisbacher, Alexa Boblitz, Robert A. Fowler, Lauren Lapointe-Shaw, Kathleen A. Sheehan, Therese A. Stukel, Paula A. Rochon

1Women’s Age Lab and Women’s College Research Institute, Women’s College Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, Sinai Health System and the University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
3Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
4Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
5ICES, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
6Sunnybrook Research Institute, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
7Centre for Mental Health, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
8Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada