Increasing polypharmacy - an individual-based study of the Swedish population 2005-2008 |
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| Authors: | Bo Hovstadius Karl Hovstadius Bengt Åstrand Göran Petersson |
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| Affiliation: | (1) eHealth Institute and School of Natural Sciences, Linnaeus University, SE-391 82 Kalmar, Sweden;(2) Department of Statistics, Uppsala University, SE-751 01 Uppsala, Sweden;(3) eHealth Institute and School of Health and Caring Sciences, Linnaeus University, SE-391 82 Kalmar, Sweden |
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| Abstract: | Background An increase in the use of drugs and polypharmacy have been displayed over time in spite of the fact that polypharmacy represents a well known risk factor as regards patients' health due to the adverse drug reactions, drug-drug interactions, and low adherence to drug therapy arising from polypharmacy. For policymakers, as well as for clinicians, it is important to follow the developing trends in drug use and polypharmacy over time. We wanted to study if the prevalence of polypharmacy in an entire national population has changed during a 4-year period. |
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