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ArticleThe British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners2011

Potential health impacts of multiple drug prescribing for older people: a case-control study.

Umesh T Kadam

Abstract readMulticenter Study
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Article in The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Umesh T KadamArthritis Research UK Primary Care Centre, Keele University, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, UK. u.kadam@cphc.keele.ac.uk

Funding

Medical Research Council
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Using a prescription-survey linkage dataset for 4506 people aged ≥50 years from six general practices, the null hypothesis that multiple drug prescribing was not associated with changes in health over a 3-year time-period was investigated. There was a significant trend in the adjusted association between higher levels of multidrug therapy and deterioration in both physical and psychological health over a 3-year time period. The study highlights the potential need for assessing drug prescribing in terms of overall health.

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Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse ReactionsHealth StatusPolypharmacyQuality of LifeAgedCase-Control StudiesDrug PrescriptionsDrug Utilization ReviewHumansMiddle Aged

Identifiers

PMID21276339
PMCPMC3026151

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