Inpatient opioid prescribing patterns and their effect on rehospitalisations: a nested case-control study using data from a Swiss public acute hospital.

Aims Of The Study: Opioid prescriptions have increased in Switzerland, even though current guidelines warn of their harms. If opioids for postoperative analgesia are not tapered before hospital discharge, patients are at risk of adverse events such as constipation, drowsiness, dependence, tolerance and withdrawal. The aim of this study was to investigate and quantify the potential association between opioids prescribed at discharge from hospital and rehospitalisation.

Predicting delirium in older non-intensive care unit inpatients: development and validation of the DELIrium risK Tool (DELIKT).

Background: Effective delirium prevention could benefit from automatic risk stratification of older inpatients using routinely collected clinical data.

Aim: Primary aim was to develop and validate a delirium prediction model (DELIKT) suitable for implementation in hospitals. Secondary aim was to select an anticholinergic burden scale as a predictor.