TY - JOUR
T1 - Correlations of nursing home characteristics with prescription of osteoporosis medications
AU - Parikh, Seema
AU - Brookhart, M
AU - Stedman, Margaret
AU - Avorn, Jerry
AU - Mogun, Helen
AU - Solomon, Daniel
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Background
Osteoporosis is highly prevalent in the nursing home (NH) populations but medications that increase bone mineral density are used infrequently. Prior research finds few patient characteristics predict treatment. NH characteristics have been associated with prescription of some medications. We examined associations of NH-level characteristics with osteoporosis treatment in elderly patients admitted to a NH after a fracture.
Method
We conducted a cohort study of patients with hip, wrist and humeral fractures admitted to a NH in NJ. They were followed for 12 months from 1999 to 2004. Possible NH-level predictors of receiving osteoporosis treatment were assessed in mixed multivariable models to account for clustering within individual NHs.
AB - Background
Osteoporosis is highly prevalent in the nursing home (NH) populations but medications that increase bone mineral density are used infrequently. Prior research finds few patient characteristics predict treatment. NH characteristics have been associated with prescription of some medications. We examined associations of NH-level characteristics with osteoporosis treatment in elderly patients admitted to a NH after a fracture.
Method
We conducted a cohort study of patients with hip, wrist and humeral fractures admitted to a NH in NJ. They were followed for 12 months from 1999 to 2004. Possible NH-level predictors of receiving osteoporosis treatment were assessed in mixed multivariable models to account for clustering within individual NHs.
UR - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21320653
U2 - 10.1016/j.bone.2011.02.006
DO - 10.1016/j.bone.2011.02.006
M3 - Article
SN - 8756-3282
VL - 48
SP - 1164
EP - 1168
JO - Bone
JF - Bone
IS - 5
ER -