Number of Medications and Mortality Among Residents in Nursing Homes

The use of multiple concurrent medications is an indicator commonly used to evaluate the quality of pharmacotherapy in older adults, via an assessment of the medication burden.1,2 Previous studies have reported polypharmacy prevalences of up to 40% among nursing home (NH) residents.3 However, the association between polypharmacy and mortality in this setting is still unclear. The aim of this study was to measure the association between multiple medication use and all-cause mortality in older people residing in NHs in Madrid.