Are the medicine count and regimen complexity useful predictors of burden in patients at risk from medications?

• In: Poster presentation
• At: Seoul (South Korea) (2017)
• Type: Poster
• Poster code: POS-SAPS-025
• By: HENMAN, Martin (Trinity College Dublin, The School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Dublin, Ireland)
• Co-author(s): Martin C Henman
  
• Abstract:

  Background

  Polypharmacy is a predictor of risk from medications in older people. Medication regimen complexity is less associated with risk than with the burden of medications impose. However, there are also other groups of vulnerable people to be considered and which of these measures is most useful?

  Purpose

  To compare the usefulness of the..

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