ReviewPharmacy (Basel, Switzerland)2019
Polypharmacy Definitions for Multimorbid Older Adults Need Stronger Foundations to Guide Research, Clinical Practice and Public Health.
Review in Pharmacy (Basel, Switzerland), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04663360 (Medication Monitoring in General Practice), which is not on this map. Cited by 48 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The trial behind it
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Medication Monitoring in General Practice: Clinical Impact of Implementing a Nurse-led Adverse Drug Reaction (ADRe) Profile in Older Adults With 5 or More Prescribed Medicines
Who cites it
48 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Pooled it
- Association of Drug-Disease Interactions with Mortality or Readmission in Hospitalised Middle-Aged and Older Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Drugs - real world outcomes · 2024Pooled it
- Inappropriate prescribing and association with readmission or mortality in hospitalised older adults with frailty: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC geriatrics · 2024Pooled it
- Potentially inappropriate prescribing in multimorbid and polymedicated older adults with AF: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Drugs & aging · 2024Pooled it
- Economic Evaluations of Interventions to Optimize Medication Use in Older Adults with Polypharmacy and Multimorbidity: A Systematic Review.Clinical interventions in aging · 2021Pooled it
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- Polypharmacy Thresholds that Best Predict Emergency Room Visits and Mortality in Older Adults: A Population-Based Study in Québec, Canada.Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society · 2026Article
- Healthcare professionals' perspectives on medication adherence-supporting tools: a cross‑sectional survey in Italy.European journal of clinical pharmacology · 2026Article
- Artificial intelligence-driven risk prediction of polypharmacy in older adults: current advances, clinical applications, and future perspectives.Frontiers in public health · 2026Review
- Prescribers' experiences regarding deprescribing of polypharmacy at selected district hospitals in Gauteng province, South Africa.Health SA = SA Gesondheid · 2026Article
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- Perspective of older people on which medicines they need to report to healthcare professionals as part of a medicines history: a qualitative descriptive study.International journal of clinical pharmacy · 2025Article
- Attitudes, barriers, and facilitators toward tools supporting appropriate prescribing among healthcare professionals: a cross-sectional study.European journal of clinical pharmacology · 2025Article
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- Association of Korean Medicine and polypharmacy with fall risk and mortality in older adults with stroke.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2025Article
- Adopting STOPP/START Criteria Version 3 in Clinical Practice: A Q&A Guide for Healthcare Professionals.Drug safety · 2024Article
- Polypharmacy Management in Chronic Conditions: A Systematic Literature Review of Italian Interventions.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Review
- Defining, identifying and addressing problematic polypharmacy within multimorbidity in primary care: a scoping review.BMJ open · 2024Article
- Categorical Analysis of Database Consistency in Reporting Drug-Drug Interactions for Cardiovascular Diseases.Pharmaceutics · 2024Article
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Abstract
There are numerous definitions of polypharmacy to describe the use of many medications among older adults, but there is a need to clarify if they are purposive and meaningful. By means of a systematic review, we identified definitions of polypharmacy used in multimorbid older adults (≥65 years). We evaluated if the definitions align among the domains of research, clinical practice, and public health and appraised whether concepts of polypharmacy are based on strong foundations. More than 46 definitions of polypharmacy were retrieved from 348 publications (research:
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