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Monitoring Polypharmacy in Healthcare Systems Through a Multi-Setting Survey: Should We Put More Attention on Long Term Care Facilities?

BACKGROUND: Polypharmacy is a main issue of patient safety in all healthcare settings (i.e. increase adverse drug reactions and incidence of drug-drug interactions, etc.). The main object of the study was to evaluate the prevalence of polypharmacy and the appropriateness of drugs prescriptions in th...

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Autores principales: Arnoldo, Luca, Cattani, Giovanni, Cojutti, Piergiorgio, Pea, Federico, Brusaferro, Silvio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PAGEPress Publications, Pavia, Italy 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5206774/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28083522
http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/jphr.2016.745