Study, Mar./17: Medications found in plasma of hip fracture patients

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The full title of this Norwegian study is "Psychotropics and weak opioid analgesics in plasma samples of older hip fracture patients - detection frequencies and consistency with drug records". Not surprisingly, they found "Plasma analysis shows that use of antidepressants and benzodiazepines in hip fracture patients is significantly more frequent than respective prescription frequencies in the general elderly population."

 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28268245