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American Journal of Public Health, Vol. 79, Issue 11 1537-1540, Copyright © 1989 by American Public Health Association

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Polymedicine use among community resident older women: how much a problem?

D A Cadigan, J Magaziner and D O Fedder

Division of Intramural Research, National Center for Health Services Research and Health Care Technology Assessment, Rockville, MD 20857.

In a community-based study of older women describing the prevalence of specific medication combinations, the risk of deleterious consequence from polymedicine was concentrated in a minority of older women. There were few prevalent medication combinations, and many of the more common combinations were unavoidable. These results suggest that broad, community-based drug education programs may be less effective than those targeting medical providers and multi-drug users.






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