The longitudinal patterns of psychotropic drug prescriptions for subpopulations of community-dwelling older people with dementia: electronic health records based retrospective study

Table 2 The patterns of psychotropic drug prescriptions in subpopulations of community-dwelling older people during a five-year follow-up since the diagnosis of dementia, using three-month time intervals (N = 1278, Model 1)

	Antipsychotics	Anxiolytics	Hypnotics and Sedatives	Antidepressants	Anti-dementia drugs
	OR (95% CI)	OR (95% CI)	OR (95% CI)	OR (95% CI)	OR (95% CI)
Time trends: Every 3 months
CD group	1.07^† (1.04, 1.10)	0.98 (0.95, 1.01)	0.99 (0.97, 1.02)	1.04 (1.02, 1.06)	1.03 (1.00, 1.05)
NH group	1.10 (1.04, 1.15)	1.07 (0.98, 1.16)	0.95 (0.92, 0.98)	1.10 (1.02, 1.18)	1.04 (0.97, 1.11)
DIE group	1.05 (1.02, 1.08)	1.02 (0.97, 1.07)	1.05 (1.02, 1.09)	1.04 (1.00, 1.08)	1.00 (0.96, 1.04)
DeR group	1.13 (1.09, 1.17)	0.96 (0.87, 1.06)	1.01 (0.90, 1.13)	0.99 (0.95, 1.04)	1.03 (1.00, 1.07)

OR odds ratio, 95% CI 95% confidence interval
CD group: older people who continued living in the community during the 5-year follow-up
NH group: older people who moved ultimately to nursing homes during the 5-year follow-up
DIE group: older people who died ultimately during the 5-year follow-up
DeR group: older people who deregistered ultimately for unclear reasons during the 5-year follow-up
^† The odds of the antipsychotic prescriptions in the CD group increased, 1.07 times higher than the odds in the previous 3 months

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