Expert‐based drug lists to measure anticholinergic burden: similar names, different results

Lertxundi, Unax; Domingo‐Echaburu, Saioa; Hernández, Rafael; Bru Peral, Javier; Medrano, Juan

doi:10.1111/j.1479-8301.2012.00418.x

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Expert‐based drug lists to measure anticholinergic burden: similar names, different results

Published in Psychogeriatrics • Mar 1, 2013

Authors:

Unax Lertxundi

Saioa Domingo‐Echaburu

Rafael Hernández

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Scoring scales such as the Anticholinergic Drug Scale (ADS), the Anticholinergic Risk Scale (ARS), and the Anticholinergic Cognitive Burden Scale (ACB) provide an estimation of total anticholinergic burden. Not all the lists include the same drugs, and the points given for certain drugs ...

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Anticholinergic

Medicine

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