Clinical significance
- Structured medication review of all patients presenting with fall,
with a focus on reducing ACB, is likely to reduce some of the burden
of falls on the healthcare system
- Routinely calculating ACB scores in inpatients aged over 65 may assist
with medication rationalisation and deprescribing
- Medical professionals at all levels would benefit from further
education regarding the implications of polypharmacotherapy and the
need to weigh the benefit of a new medication with the associated
harms of increased medication and ACB