ArticleThe British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners2006
Polypharmacy, appropriate and inappropriate.
Article in The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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14 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Interventions to improve the appropriate use of polypharmacy for older people.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2023Pooled it
- Interventions to improve the appropriate use of polypharmacy for older people.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2018Pooled it
- Medication review in hospitalised patients to reduce morbidity and mortality.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2016Pooled it
- Deprescribing & its associated factors among middle & old-aged ambulatory patients with chronic disease (s): A hospital-based cross-sectional study.The Indian journal of medical research · 2025Article
- Biological and functional multimorbidity-from mechanisms to management.Nature medicine · 2023Review
- Residential Medication Management Reviews and continuous polypharmacy among older Australian women.International journal of clinical pharmacy · 2021Article
- The challenge to define a relevant change in medication appropriateness index score in older adults - An approach.British journal of clinical pharmacology · 2020Article
- The Double Burden of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Polypharmacy on Geriatric Population - Public Health Implications.Therapeutics and clinical risk management · 2020Review
- Impact of training and structured medication review on medication appropriateness and patient-related outcomes in nursing homes: results from the interventional study InTherAKT.BMC geriatrics · 2019Article
- Identifying enablers and barriers to individually tailored prescribing: a survey of healthcare professionals in the UK.BMC family practice · 2018Article
- The rising tide of polypharmacy and drug-drug interactions: population database analysis 1995-2010.BMC medicine · 2015Article
- Dispensed drugs and multiple medications in the Swedish population: an individual-based register study.BMC clinical pharmacology · 2009Article
- Adverse drug reactions--no farewell to harms.British journal of clinical pharmacology · 2007Article
- Balanced prescribing.British journal of clinical pharmacology · 2006Article
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