Clinicians should be conscious of link between polypharmacy and hospitalisation: study | Aged Care Insite
Residents taking nine or more medications have an 89 per cent higher risk of hospitalisation than those who take less than nine, the authors of a new study have said.
Conducted by Monash University researchers and staff from Resthaven, the study set out to investigate whether there was an association between taking nine or more regular medications and admission to hospital.