Trends in polypharmacy and dispensed drugs among adults in the Netherlands as compared to the United States.
Monika Pury OktoraPetra DenigJens H J BosCatharina C M Schuiling-VeningaEelko HakPublished in: PloS one (2019)
Polypharmacy more than doubled from 1999 to 2014, and this increase was not limited to the elderly. The relative increase was larger in the Netherlands compared to the US, which was partly due to larger increases in several guideline-recommended preventive drugs.
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