Abstract:Background
The accumulation of drugs can cause errors in taking the medicines and an unnecessary increase in health expenditure.
Purpose
To quantify the accumulation of drugs in the home medicines cabinets of polymedicated patients aged over 64 and to assess the associated factors.
Materials and methods
Cross-sectional study of polymedicated patients (≥6 medicines in their usual treatment) over the age of 64 admitted to the internal medicine ward in the period from March to July 2011. The authors reviewed … Show more
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