Medication evidence profile
Oxazepam
Clinical overview
Oxazepam has public medication-list entries in Yamada-ABS 2023, Swe-ABS 2023, GABS 2018, and CALS 2022 Table 4. These are 4 separate source versions, each with its own evidence and definitions.
Source-specific scores
| Source | Score |
|---|---|
| JARS | Not listed |
| Yamada-ABS | 0 |
| BAAS | Not listed |
| Swe-ABS | 1 |
| GABS | 1 |
| KABS | Not listed |
| CALS | 1 |
How to read this: 0 means the source explicitly assigned zero. “Not listed” means the source did not provide a score for this medication. Scores from different scales are not averaged.
How to interpret the evidence
4 of 7 public source versions contain an explicit medication-list entry for oxazepam.
The recorded values differ across the source rows for oxazepam. Scale methods, definitions, source eras, evidence types and identity handling can differ; the numbers alone do not establish the reason for this medication’s disagreement.
Yamada-ABS 2023 explicitly records zero. Those recorded zeros remain different from a missing entry.
Source labels and provenance · 4 observations
- Yamada Pharmacological Anticholinergic Burden Scale 2023
Source label: oxazepam. Published value: 0.
Source version: YAMADA-ABS-2023
Source location: GGI-23-558-s002.docx Table S1 row 15 (Anxiolytics, Hypnotics, sedatives); source cell reads "oxazepam quazepam" without delimiter
Observation: YAMADA_ABS_2023_R0188; rating state: published_zero. - Swedish Anticholinergic Burden Scale 2023
Source label: Oxazepam. Published value: 1.
Source version: SWE-ABS-2023
Source location: RC4 source recovery; recovery_scope=primary_final_nonzero_complete
Observation: SWE_ABS_2023_R0047; rating state: published_rating. - German Anticholinergic Burden Score 2018
Source label: Oxazepam. Published value: 1.
Source version: GABS-2018
Source location: RC4 source recovery; recovery_scope=primary_nonzero_complete
Observation: GABS_2018_R0074; rating state: published_rating. - CALS 2022 - primary final Table 4
Source label: Oxazepam. Published value: 1.
Source version: CALS-2022-primary-table4
Source location: Table 4; literal capture row 192; displayed table row 28; displayed column 3
Observation: CALS2022_T4_0192; rating state: published_final_table_rating.
What this page does not establish
- No medication-list entry is available here from JARS 2025, BAAS 2019, and KABS 2020 open validation supplement. These gaps remain “Not listed”; no score is inferred from another source or from class membership.
- No route inference unless present in the source label.
- These source records do not estimate an individual’s probability of harm or establish whether to start, stop or change a medication. Ordinal source scores are not averaged into a UnifiedACB score.
References
- Yamada S, Mochizuki M, Chimoto J, Futokoro R, Kagota S, Shinozuka K. Development of a pharmacological evidence-based anticholinergic burden scale for medications commonly used in older adults. Geriatr Gerontol Int. 2023;23(7):558-564. doi:10.1111/ggi.14619. Open source
- Rube T, Ecorcheville A, Londos E, Modig S, Johansson P. Development of the Swedish anticholinergic burden scale (Swe-ABS). BMC Geriatr. 2023;23(1):518. doi:10.1186/s12877-023-04225-1. Open source
- Kiesel EK, Hopf YM, Drey M. An anticholinergic burden score for German prescribers: score development. BMC Geriatr. 2018;18(1):239. doi:10.1186/s12877-018-0929-6. Open source
- Ramos H, Moreno L, Pérez-Tur J, Cháfer-Pericás C, García-Lluch G, Pardo J. CRIDECO Anticholinergic Load Scale: an updated anticholinergic burden scale. Comparison with the ACB Scale in Spanish individuals with subjective memory complaints. J Pers Med. 2022;12(2):207. doi:10.3390/jpm12020207. Open source
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