Does prescription history improve baseline mortality risk assessment in older men?
Incorporating prescription history can improve baseline mortality risk assessment in older men beyond commonly used comorbidity measures.
A majority of older men had a history of prescribed medications and many drug classes were associated with mortality rate, including drug classes not directly indicated for a specific comorbidity represented in commonly used comorbidity measures. Prescription history can improve baseline risk assessment but some associations might be context-sensitive.
Gedeborg et al. (Thu,) studied this question.