Appropriateness of psychotropic drug prescriptions in the elderly: structuring tools based on data extracted from the hospital information system to understand physician practices

Table 1 Characteristics of hospital stays of patients aged 75 and over who were administered at least two psychotropic drugs and one long half-life benzodiazepine more than once (case group 1, N = 203) compared to hospital stays of patients aged 75 and over who were administered at least two psychotropic drugs and one long half-life benzodiazepine only once (case group 2, N = 159) during stay; Bordeaux, from July 2014 to July 2015

Characteristics	Case group 1 (N=203)		Case group 2 (N=159)
Characteristics	N	%	N	%
Gender of the patient
Male	86	42.4	53	33.3
Female	117	57.6	106	66.7
Stay with high level of severity
Yes	137	67.5	91	57.2
No	66	32.5	68	42.8
Management for mental disorders^a	53	26.1	23	14.5
Psychiatric disorders^b
Dementia	81	39.9	57	35.8
Cognitive disorders	70	34.5	55	34.6
Mood disorders^a	71	35.0	36	22.6
Anxiety disorders	62	30.5	45	28.3
Psychoses and personality disorders	39	19.2	25	15.7
Alcohol addiction	16	7.9	6	3.8

^aStatistically significant difference (level of significance = 5%)
^bCodes of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems 10th Revision (ICD-10): Dementia (F00, F01, F02, F03); Cognitive disorders (R41, F06.7); Mood disorders (F32, F33, F38, F39); Anxiety disorders (F40, F41, F42, F43); Psychoses (F20, F21, F22, F23, F24, F25, F28, F29) and personality disorders (F60, F61, F62, F63, F64, F65, F66, F68); Alcohol addiction (F10)

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