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Epidemiology and associated factors of polypharmacy in older patients in primary care: a northern Italian cross-sectional study

BACKGROUND: A precondition for developing strategies to reduce polypharmacy and its well-known harmful consequences is to study its epidemiology and associated factors. The objective of this study was to analyse the prevalence of polypharmacy (defined as ≥8 prescribed drugs), of potentially inapprop...

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Autores principales:	Piccoliori, Giuliano, Mahlknecht, Angelika, Sandri, Marco, Valentini, Martina, Vögele, Anna, Schmid, Sara, Deflorian, Felix, Engl, Adolf, Sönnichsen, Andreas, Wiedermann, Christian
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BioMed Central 2021
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7981991/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33743582 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-021-02141-w

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