What is polypharmacy? A systematic review of definitions¶
Masnoon. (2017). What is polypharmacy? A systematic review of definitions. BMC Geriatrics.
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- Polypharmacy
- Polypharmacy is the clinical-pharmacology phenomenon in which a patient takes multiple medications concurrently — operationally defined as five or more simultaneous prescriptions in most clinical research
This sourceSystematic review of 110 articles finding five or more medications daily to be the single most commonly reported definition of polypharmacy, used in 46.4% of studies.
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“The most commonly reported definition of polypharmacy was the numerical definition of five or more medications daily (n = 51, 46.4% of articles), with definitions ranging from two or more to 11 or more medicines.”
- Polypharmacy is the clinical-pharmacology phenomenon in which a patient takes multiple medications concurrently — operationally defined as five or more simultaneous prescriptions in most clinical research
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