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Table 1 Patient age and sex, and percentage of patients with dementia in each nursing home

From: Consensus and evidence-based medication review to optimize and potentially reduce psychotropic drug prescription in institutionalized dementia patients

Nursing home

Patients with dementia and PD, n (%)

Prevalence of dementia, %

Mean age, y (SD)

Women, n (%)

NH 1

35 (14.6%)

35.0%

87.98 (7.78)

28 (80%)

NH 2

42 (17.5%)

43.8%

88.05 (4.99)

38 (90.5%)

NH 3

25 (10.4%)

24.0%

87.44 (6.25)

15 (60%)

NH 4

14 (5.8%)

35.0%

89.57 (8.22)

10 (71.4%)

NH 5

52 (21.7%)

45.2%

85.25 (7.51)

32 (61.5%)

NH 6

50 (20.8%)

58.1%

86.66 (7.35)

37 (74%)

NH 7

22 (9.2%)

33.9%

87.36 (3.63)

20 (90.9%)

TOTAL

240

39.6%

87.9 (6.8)

180 (75%)

  1. NH nursing home, PD psychotropic drugs, SD standard deviation, y years. Patients with dementia: patients evaluated by a neurologist with a confirmed diagnosis of dementia according to ICD-10 criteria