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

Table 1 Baseline characteristics, n = 44 participating residents

	Mean or %	SD
Age (years, mean)	86.9	6.9
Female (%)	70.5	n/a
Follow-up (days, mean)	104	13.5
Medication administration problems (scale of 0 to 13, mean)^a	0.23	0.86
Charlson Comorbidity Score (mean)	7.45	2.46
Residents with severe agitation (> 45^b, %)	13.6	12.8
Discomfort/pain (scale of 0 to 60, mean)^c	8.1	2.3

SD, standard deviation
^aTotal number of problematic behaviors observed during medication administration [27]
^bSum of the number of times the Cohen-Mansfield Agitation Inventory items [31] were observed during the four 15-min observation periods
^cSum of observations of PACSLAC-F items [29] during the four 15-min observation periods

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