Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
2575840 The American Journal of Geriatric Pharmacotherapy 2010 12 Pages PDF
Abstract
Conclusions: Analgesics were used by ~50% of community-dwelling people aged ≥75 years. However, age was not significantly associated with increased use of analgesics in multivariate analysis. The majority of analgesic drugs were used on an as-needed rather than a daily basis (76.7% vs 23.3%, respectively). Factors most significantly associated with analgesic use were female sex, living alone, poor self-rated health, and use of ≥10 nonanalgesic drugs.
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