Interventions to improve the appropriate use of polypharmacy for older people.

Judith A ColeDaniela C Gonçalves-BradleyMubarak AlqahtaniHeather E BarryCathal CadoganAudrey RankinSusan M PattersonNgaire KerseChris R CardwellCristin RyanCarmel Hughes

Published in: The Cochrane database of systematic reviews (2023)

It is unclear whether interventions to improve appropriate polypharmacy resulted in clinically significant improvement. Since the last update of this review in 2018, there appears to have been an increase in the number of studies seeking to address potential prescribing omissions and more interventions being delivered by multidisciplinary teams.

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