Guided Prescription of Psychotropic Medications for Geriatric Inpatients

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Abstract
Psychotropic medications have been implicated in a variety of adverse drug events (ADEs), including falls, hip fractures, delirium, and oversedation.1-9 Vulnerable geriatric patients may experience disproportionate injury from psychotropic medications because of increased frequency of use, slower metabolic clearance, or reduced physiologic reserve.10,11 The hospitalized elderly, who experience 4 times as many preventable ADEs than do younger patients,12 are potentially most vulnerable because of acute-onset illness and high prevalence of frailty.13