Patterns of dementia treatment and frank prescribing errors in older adults with Parkinson disease.

Sneha Mantri; Michelle Fullard; Shelly L. Gray; Daniel Weintraub; Rebecca A. Hubbard; Sean Hennessy; Allison W. Willis

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Patterns of dementia treatment and frank prescribing errors in older adults with Parkinson disease.

October 24, 2018

Mantri S, Fullard M, Gray SL, et al. JAMA Neurol. 2019;76(1):41-49.

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This analysis of Medicare claims data found a significant prevalence of concurrent use of dementia medication with acetylcholinesterase inhibitors and anticholinergic medications. This medication combination is a frank medical error that the authors describe as a never event. Despite this, coprescription occurred in 44% of those prescribed dementia medication, and this medication error was more common in the southeastern and midwestern regions of the United States compared to the northeast or western regions.

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