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. 2018 Aug 7;18:616. doi: 10.1186/s12913-018-3425-y

Table 1.

Baseline characteristics of included patients (n = 1720)

	Nursing home n = 1508	Home care n = 212	p-value
Age, mean (SD)	87.7 (5.8)	86.3 (5.7)	< 0.01^a
Female n (%)	1123 (74.5)	142 (67.0)	0.02^b
Number of drugs per patient, mean (SD)	11.2 (4.6)	11.4 (4.3)	0.59^a
continuous drugs, mean (SD)	8.5 (3.6)	9.2 (3.3)	< 0.01^a
drugs as needed, mean (SD)	2.8 (2.1)	2.2 (2.0)	< 0.01^a
Number of potentially inappropriate drugs, mean (SD)	0.30 (0.46)	0.27 (0.44)	0.35^a
Antipsychotics, mean (SD)	0.12 (0.33)	0.05 (0.21)	< 0.01^a
Long-acting benzodiazepines, mean (SD)	0.06 (0.24)	0.10 (0.31)	0.04^a
Anticholinergics, mean (SD)	0.09 (0.29)	0.09 (0.29)	0.90^a
Propiomazine, mean (SD)	0.02 (0.15)	0.05 (0.21)	0.09^a
Tramadol, mean (SD)	0.05 (0.23)	0.04 (0.20)	0.49^a
Patients with ≥1 PIM, n (%)	453 (30.0)	57 (26.9)	0.35^b
Patients with ≥3 psychotropics, n (%)	367 (24.3)	28 (13.2)	< 0.01^b
DRPs, mean (SD)	2.2 (1.9)	2.4 (1.8)	0.21^a

SD standard deviation

^at-test, ^b Chi square test