Table 1.

Baseline characteristics, n = 44 participating residents

	Mean or %	SD
Age (years, mean)	86.9	6.9
Female (%)	70.5	n/a
Follow-up (days, mean)	104	13.5
Medication administration problems (scale of 0 to 13, mean)a	0.23	0.86
Charlson Comorbidity Score (mean)	7.45	2.46
Residents with severe agitation (>  45b, %)	13.6	12.8
Discomfort/pain (scale of 0 to 60, mean)c	8.1	2.3

SD, standard deviation

^aTotal number of problematic behaviors observed during medication administration [27]

^bSum of the number of times the Cohen-Mansfield Agitation Inventory items [31] were observed during the four 15-min observation periods

^cSum of observations of PACSLAC-F items [29] during the four 15-min observation periods