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TABLE 5.

Change in medicine use from hospital admission to discharge

Characteristics	AOR (95% CI) ^a , P‐value
Characteristics	With dementia	Without dementia
Hyperpolypharmacy	1.95 (0.90–4.23), .09	2.38 (1.14–4.98), .02
Psychotropic medicines use^b	1.52 (0.72–3.19), .27	0.93 (0.43–2.01), .85
PIM use defined by beers Criteria^c	1.57 (0.67–3.69), .29	1.58 (0.61–4.14), .34
PIM use defined by STOPP Criteria^c	1.09 (0.48–2.44), .87	0.75 (0.26–2.18), .60
Fall‐related STOPP criteria PIM use^c	1.28 (0.57–2.86), .55	0.61 (0.20–1.93), .40
Fall‐related beers criteria PIM use^c	1.44 (0.67–3.10), .34	1.43 (0.62–3.32), .40

^{^a}

AOR shown for time‐periods (hospital discharge vs admission), adjusted for age, sex, length of hospital stay, age‐adjusted Charlson Comorbidity Index; ^b excluding antidementia medicines; ^c modelling the probability that patient is exposed to at least 1 PIM.