Relation of severe COVID-19 to polypharmacy and prescribing of psychotropic drugs: the REACT-SCOT case-control study

Background The objective of this study was to investigate the relation of severe COVID-19 to prior drug prescribing. Methods Severe cases were defined by entry to critical care or fatal outcome. For this matched case-control study (REACT-SCOT), all 4251 cases of severe COVID-19 in Scotland since the...

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Published in:	BMC medicine Vol. 19; no. 1; pp. 51 - 11
Main Authors:	McKeigue, Paul M., Kennedy, Sharon, Weir, Amanda, Bishop, Jen, McGurnaghan, Stuart J., McAllister, David, Robertson, Chris, Wood, Rachael, Lone, Nazir, Murray, Janet, Caparrotta, Thomas M., Smith-Palmer, Alison, Goldberg, David, McMenamin, Jim, Guthrie, Bruce, Hutchinson, Sharon, Colhoun, Helen M.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	London BioMed Central 22.02.2021 BioMed Central Ltd Springer Nature B.V BMC
Subjects:	Aged Aged, 80 and over Analgesics Anticholinergics Antipsychotic agents Antipsychotics Biomedicine Case-Control Studies Comorbidity Complications and side effects Coronaviruses COVID-19 COVID-19 - chemically induced COVID-19 - diagnosis COVID-19 - epidemiology Critical care Critical Care - trends Diabetes Dose-Response Relationship, Drug Drug dosages Drug Prescriptions Drugs Dyskinesia Epidemics Exposure Female Gabapentinoids Gastrointestinal system Humans Intensive care Male Medicine Medicine & Public Health Middle Aged Morbidity Morphine Narcotics Opioids Pharmacoepidemiology Pneumonia Polypharmacy Population Prescribing Prescription drugs Primary care Proton pump inhibitors Psychotropic drugs Psychotropic Drugs - adverse effects Psychotropic Drugs - therapeutic use Public health Ratios Research Article Risk Scotland - epidemiology Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 Severity of Illness Index Statistics Scotland United Kingdom > UK COVID-19 Pharmacoepidemiology Polypharmacy Opioids Gabapentinoids Overprescribing Antipsychotic agents Proton pump inhibitors
ISSN:	1741-7015, 1741-7015
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