Table 4 Adjusted OR for potentially inappropriate medication prescription by patient characteristics according to three sets of PIM criteria.
Characteristics | Beers Criteria | PIM-Taiwan criteria | PRISCUS criteria | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
OR | 95% CI | OR | 95% CI | OR | 95% CI | |
Patient characteristics | ||||||
Gender | ||||||
Male | 1(ref) | 1(ref) | 1(ref) | |||
Female | 1.27*** | 1.25–1.29 | 1.31*** | 1.29–1.33 | 1.29*** | 1.27–1.31 |
Age (years) | ||||||
65–74 | 1(ref) | 1(ref) | 1(ref) | |||
75–84 | 0.81** | 0.8–0.83 | 0.8*** | 0.79–0.82 | 0.91*** | 0.89–0.92 |
≥85 | 0.62*** | 0.61–0.64 | 0.6*** | 0.59–0.62 | 0.71*** | 0.69–0.72 |
No. of ED visits | 1.26*** | 1.25–1.28 | 1.15** | 1.13–1.17 | 1.3*** | 1.26–1.33 |
No. of hospitals | 0.96*** | 0.93–0.98 | NS | 1.06*** | 1.04–1.09 | |
No. of diagnoses in ED | ||||||
≤3/year | 1(ref) | 1(ref) | 1(ref) | |||
>3/year | 1.22*** | 1.18–1.26 | 1.09*** | 1.06–1.12 | 1.17*** | 1.14–1.2 |
No. of physicians in ED | NS | 1.17*** | 1.1–1.23 | NS | ||
No. of medications prescribed in ED/year | ||||||
<4 | 1(ref) | 1(ref) | 1(ref) | |||
4–6 | 3.45*** | 3.39–3.51 | 2.79*** | 2.73–2.84 | 2.53*** | 2.48–2.59 |
>6 | 9.18*** | 8.94–9.42 | 6.08*** | 5.94–6.23 | 5.17*** | 5.04–5.31 |
