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Medication Burden and Injurious Falls Among Patients With COPD

Agents such as benzodiazepines, sedative-hypnotics, antihypertensives, and other psychoactive drugs—often used to treat comorbidities in patients with COPD—may be contributing to an increased risk of falls among this population near the end of life.

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  1. 30% of patients with COPD enrolled in a recent trial experienced injurious falls in their final 2 years of life.
  2. Higher fall risks were linked to prescriptions for anticonvulsants, benzodiazepines, and tricyclic antidepressants.
  3. Patients with falls were more likely to be Black, unmarried, and Medicaid-enrolled. 
  4. The study highlighted the need for targeted deprescribing strategies and interdisciplinary collaboration to reduce fall risk.
  5. Study limitations included the reliance on EHR data and the absence of COPD severity metrics.

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