Prevalence of polypharmacy and associated factors in older adults in Spain: Data from the National Health Survey 2017.

CONCLUSIONS: the prevalence of polypharmacy in the elderly in primary care continues to increase and could be widely underestimated. In addition to multimorbidity, factors such as functional capacity or geriatric syndromes, fundamental in elderly people, modulate the habits of consumption and prescription of drugs in this population. PMID: 30803798 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30803798?dopt=Abstract

Source: Medicina Clinica - February 27, 2019 Category: General Medicine Tags: Med Clin (Barc) Source Type: research