High prevalence of prescription of psychotropic drugs for older patients in a general hospital

Table 5 Proportion of patients with 0 to 7 psychotropic drugs/ potentially inappropriate psychotropic medication during hospital stay

	Surgical Depts.	Dept. of Internal Medicine	Dept. of Geriatrics	Total (N = 2130)
all psychotropic drugs
0	463	442	76	981
1	328	284	95	707
2	96	96	62	254
3	42	44	34	120
4	12	11	18	41
5	6	9	3	18
6	1	3	3	7
7	2	0	0	2
potentially inappropriate psychotropic drugs
0	589	645	223	1457
1	302	212	59	573
2	45	29	9	83
3	11	1	0	12
4	2	2	0	4
5	0	0	0	0
6	1	0	0	1

For the definition of potentially inappropriate psychotropic medication see Methods and Table 2

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