OBJECTIVES: To investigate whether low educational attainment is associated with
polypharmacy and potential inappropriate drug use (IDU) in older people. DESIGN: Cross …

Background: Polypharmacy is an important patient safety concern and has been associated
with increased adverse drug reactions, hospitalization, and mortality in the elderly. However …

Objective This study investigates the changes in drug use, polypharmacy and potential drug-
drug interactions (DDIs) between educational groups of Swedish elderly over a 10-year …

Background: Several studies have observed a higher rate of inappropriate drug use in
elderly women than in elderly men, although few have focused explicitly on sex differences …

Background: Potentially inappropriate drug use (IDU) is an important and preventable safety
concern in the care of elderly patients and has been associated with adverse drug reactions …

Background Although the increasing use of drugs in elderly persons has raised many
concerns in recent years, the process leading to polypharmacy (PP) and excessive …

Background Polypharmacy can be defined as using five or more medications
simultaneously.“Medication-related problems”, an extension of polypharmacy, includes …

Objective. To investigate whether the use of multi-dose drug dispensing is associated with
potentially inappropriate drug use (IDU). Design. Cross-sectional nationwide register-based …

Background Polypharmacy is common in older people and associated with potential harms.
The aim of this study was to analyse the characteristics of an older multimorbid population …

Objective To document the extent of polypharmacy or multiple medication use in the elderly.
Design Cross‐sectional examination of an age cohort of a community. Setting Community …