Pharmaceutical Intervention to Manage Polypharmacy in Elderly Patients based on STOPP Criteria
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Collaborating to manage polypharmacy.
DiNCQUMGP (Divisions National Consortium for the Quality Use of Medicines in General Practice) reports on a collaboration between doctors, pharmaceutical companies, government agencies, and medicine users to manage polypharmacy (prescribing multiple medicines to a patient) amongst older people. We have reported the outcomes of our collaboration (improving the Quality Use of Medicines) elsewhere...
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عنوان ژورنال: Iryo Yakugaku (Japanese Journal of Pharmaceutical Health Care and Sciences)
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1346-342X,1882-1499
DOI: 10.5649/jjphcs.42.78