Pills and Perils: Navigating Polypharmacy in Older Adults.

Jafar Ohiokpehai, Lina Toledo-Franco, Julie K Gammack

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Article in Missouri medicine. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Jafar OhiokpehaiFaculty in the Divisions of Geriatric Medicine and Palliative Medicine, SSM Health/Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.

Lina Toledo-FrancoAssociate Professor of Medicine, Director, Division of Palliative Medicine, SSM Health/Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.

Julie K GammackProfessor of Medicine, Division of Geriatric Medicine, SSM Health/Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Polypharmacy encompasses inappropriate prescribing, overprescribing, and underprescribing. Polypharmacy in older adults is quite common and contributes to adverse effects, drug interactions, hospital admissions, and functional and cognitive decline. Efforts to reduce polypharmacy include criterion-based management tools, deprescribing protocols, and the use of electronic clinical decision support tools.

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Inappropriate PrescribingPolypharmacyAgedDeprescriptionsDrug InteractionsDrug-Related Side Effects and Adverse ReactionsHumansclinical decision support toolscriterion-based managementdrug interactionsgeriatric medicinemultimorbidityPolypharmacy

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PMID42756951

PMCPMC13585007

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