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Polypharmacy in older adults: a narrative review of definitions, epidemiology and consequences

BACKGROUND: The number of older adults has been constantly growing around the globe. Consequently, multimorbidity and related polypharmacy have become an increasing problem. In the absence of an accepted agreement on the definition of polypharmacy, data on its prevalence in various studies are not e...

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Autores principales: Pazan, Farhad, Wehling, Martin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8149355/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33694123
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s41999-021-00479-3