Number (%) of patients receiving Beers-criteria potentially inappropriate medication by residential setting in the last 90 days in the community and care homes in England and Wales
| Community (n = 403 259) | All care homes (n = 10 387) | Residential homes only (n = 4715) | Nursing homes only (n = 4269) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standardised %a | Standardised %a | Standardised %a | Standardised %a | ||||||
| n | Crude % | (95% CI) | n | (95% CI) | n | (95% CI) | n | (95% CI) | |
| All Beers criteria including dose and comorbidity | 74 250 | 18.4 | 21.4 (20.9 to 21.8) | 3428 | 33.0 (31.7 to 34.3) | 1520 | 32.4 (30.8 to 34.0) | 1470 | 34.1 (32.0 to 36.3) |
| Dose and comorbidity independent | 51 924 | 12.9 | 14.2 (13.8 to 14.6) | 2021 | 19.5 (18.4 to 20.6) | 884 | 18.8 (17.5 to 20.2) | 875 | 20.3 (18.6 to 22.1) |
↵a Directly age- and sex-standardised to the combined England and Wales care home population.