Why the study?
Does the use of cholinesterase inhibitors increase the risk of receiving an anticholinergic drug for urinary incontinence in patients with dementia?
Population
Patients with dementia
Design
Other
Authors
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May signal a prescribing cascade in dementia; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective confirmation before practice change.
Does the use of cholinesterase inhibitors increase the risk of receiving an anticholinergic drug for urinary incontinence in patients with dementia?
Cholinesterase inhibitors may cause urinary incontinence, leading to a potentially harmful prescribing cascade of anticholinergic drugs in patients with dementia.
Gill et al. (2005) studied this question.