Trends in Sedative Prescription among Older Adults after Critical Illness: A Population-based Cohort Study

Lisa D Burry; Chaim M Bell; Andrea Hill; Ruxandra Pinto; Damon C Scales; Susan E Bronskill; Louise Rose; David Williamson; Robert Fowler; Hannah Wunsch

doi:10.1164/rccm.202403-0492RL

Trends in Sedative Prescription among Older Adults after Critical Illness: A Population-based Cohort Study

Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2024 Sep 1;210(5):680-683. doi: 10.1164/rccm.202403-0492RL.

Authors

Lisa D Burry^{1

2

3

4}, Chaim M Bell^{2

5

6}, Andrea Hill^{7

8}, Ruxandra Pinto⁷, Damon C Scales^{4

7

8

9}, Susan E Bronskill^{6

10

8

9}, Louise Rose¹¹, David Williamson^{12

13

14}, Robert Fowler^{4

7

8

9}, Hannah Wunsch^{15

8

16}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pharmacy and.
² Department of Medicine, Sinai Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
³ Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy.
⁴ Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care.
⁵ Department of Medicine.
⁶ Department of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation.
⁷ Department of Critical Care Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁸ Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁹ ICES, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
¹⁰ Dalla Lana School of Public Health, and.
¹¹ Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery, and Palliative Care, King's College London, London, United Kingdom.
¹² Faculté de Pharmacie, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
¹³ Pharmacy Département, Hôpital du Sacré-Cœur de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
¹⁴ Research Center, Centre integre universitaire de sante et de services du Nord-de-l'Île-de-Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada; and.
¹⁵ Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
¹⁶ Department of Anesthesiology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York.

PMID: 38864680
DOI: 10.1164/rccm.202403-0492RL

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Cohort Studies
Critical Illness*
Drug Prescriptions / statistics & numerical data
Female
Humans
Hypnotics and Sedatives* / therapeutic use
Male
Middle Aged
Practice Patterns, Physicians' / statistics & numerical data
Practice Patterns, Physicians' / trends

Substances

Hypnotics and Sedatives