Are anticholinergic burden scores from different risk scales associated with adverse clinical outcomes in older people?
Despite substantial differences in how nine different scales estimate anticholinergic burden, all are associated with adverse clinical outcomes in older people.
There are substantial differences in the estimation of anticholinergic burden exposure between the nine scales. Anticholinergic burden scores obtained from each of the scales were associated with adverse clinical outcomes of interest.
Salahudeen et al. (Thu,) studied this question.