Multi-Year Retrospective Analysis of Mortality and Readmissions Correlated with STOPP/START and the American Geriatric Society Beers Criteria Applied to Calgary Hospital Admissions.

The goals of this retrospective cohort study of 129,443 persons admitted to Calgary acute care hospitals from 2013 to 2021 were to ascertain correlations of "potentially inappropriate medications" (PIMs), "potential prescribing omissions" (PPOs), and other risk factors with readmissions and mortality. : Processing and analysis codes were built in Oracle Database 19c (PL/SQL), R, and Excel. The percentage of patients dying during their hospital stay rose from 3.