Authors
Nashwa Masnoon, Sepehr Shakib, Lisa Kalisch-Ellett, Gillian E Caughey
Publication date
2017/12
Source
BMC geriatrics
Volume
17
Pages
1-10
Publisher
BioMed Central
Description
Background
Multimorbidity and the associated use of multiple medicines (polypharmacy), is common in the older population. Despite this, there is no consensus definition for polypharmacy. A systematic review was conducted to identify and summarise polypharmacy definitions in existing literature.
Methods
The reporting of this systematic review conforms to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) checklist. MEDLINE (Ovid), EMBASE and Cochrane were systematically searched, as well as grey literature, to identify articles which defined the term polypharmacy (without any limits on the types of definitions) and were in English, published between 1st January 2000 and 30th May 2016. Definitions were categorised as i. numerical only (using the number of medications to define polypharmacy), ii. numerical with an …
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N Masnoon, S Shakib, L Kalisch-Ellett, GE Caughey - BMC geriatrics, 2017