Elderly patients 72% more likely to get inappropriate prescription following hospitalisation

Older patients who were hospitalised were 72% more likely to be given a potentially inappropriate prescription after hospital admission, according to new research.

The study, published in the current edition of The BMJ, involved researchers from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) reviewing general practice records of 38,229 patients, aged 65 or over, from 2012 to 2015.