The OptimaMed intervention to reduce inappropriate medications in nursing home residents with severe dementia: results from a quasi-experimental feasibility pilot study

Table 3 Odds ratio for the risk of having a prescription pre versus post-intervention

Medication use among 44 participants	Odds ratio	95% CI
All medications	0.81	(0.71–0.92)
By appropriateness category^a:
“Generally appropriate” medication	1.16	(1.00–1.36)
“Sometimes appropriate” medication	0.83	(0.74–0.94)
“Exceptionally appropriate” medication	0.82	(0.52–1.30)
“Other” medication^b	0.53	(0.42–0.67)

^aAccording to the medication appropriateness list [23]
^b“Other” medications comprised those for which the Delphi panel had not reached a consensus as well as the medications not considered in the appropriateness list [23]

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