Number (percentage) of patients receiving prescriptions of PIMs by place of residence
| Number of Beers' drugs | At home, n (%) | In care, n (%) | OR (95% CI) | |
| Unadjusted | Adjusted* | |||
| 0 | 45438 (69.1) | 2, 867 (62.9) | 1.0 | 1.0 |
| 1 | 15225 (23.2) | 1236 (27.1) | 0.81 (0.79 to 0.82) | 1.22 (1.02 to 1.41) |
| 2 | 3943 (6.0) | 364 (8.0) | 2.48 (2.45 to 2.51) | 3.25 (3.06 to 3.45) |
| 3 | 916 (1.4) | 76 (1.7) | 4.05 (4.00 to 4.11) | 5.03 (4.83 to 5.23) |
| 4+ | 220 (0.3) | 14 (0.3) | 5.72 (5.59 to 5.85) | 6.81 (6.58 to 7.04) |
↵* Cumulative Beers' PIM and place of residence assessed by means of ordinal logistic regression, adjusting for age, gender and polypharmcay.
PIM, potentially inappropriate medicine.