Handling polypharmacy--a qualitative study using focus group interviews with older patients, their relatives, and healthcare professionals.

Thorbjørn Hougaard Mikkelsen; Jens Søndergaard; Niels Kristian Kjaer; Jesper Bo Nielsen; Jesper Ryg; Lene Juel Kjeldsen; Christian Backer Mogensen

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Handling polypharmacy--a qualitative study using focus group interviews with older patients, their relatives, and healthcare professionals.

September 13, 2023

Mikkelsen TH, Søndergaard J, Kjaer NK, et al. BMC Geriatr. 2023;23(1):477.

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Older adults taking 5 or more medications daily (i.e., polypharmacy) face numerous challenges to taking them safely. In this study, patients, caregivers, and clinicians describe methods to taking medications safely, difficulties they face, and ways prescribers and pharmacists can assist patients. Medication reviews, a common strategy to ensure safe polypharmacy, were requested by patients to clear up confusion around generics, timing, limitations, and side effects.

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