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Evaluation of the use of anticholinergic drugs in older age
Ščešňák, Juraj ; Fialová, Daniela (advisor) ; Pokladníková, Jitka (referee)
Introduction Anticholinergic (ACH) medications and medications with partial anticholinergic activity (AA) are prescribed in older patients particularly for the treatment of psychiatric, gastrointestinal, and genitourinary disorders, but also for other disease conditions. AA of combined drug regimens leads to ACH burden, which should be reduced as much as possible in seniors to avoid worsening of geriatric syndromes and other negative health outcomes. The aim of this diploma thesis was, in the first part, to summarize and review all currently published original and modified ACH drug scales, and to create a simple comprehensive tool for the assessment of ACH drug burden in older adults useful not only in clinical practice, but also in research. Furthermore, the focus of this diploma thesis was to describe the prevalence of use of ACH drug regimens and to document associations between administration of AA drug regimens and health problems in geriatric patients. Methods In this study, the search was conducted in 4 different electronic databases: PubMed (N = 582), MEDLINE (N = 518), Scopus (N = 423), and Web of Science (N = 420) to identify all the ACH drug burden scales published between 2000-2022 and to compile a list of AA medication assessed by these scales. The search strategy was created by using...
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