Are the kind of medications and patient's background associated with improving polypharmacy in elderly?
Shiori TomitaDaiki KobayashiKuniyoshi HayashiHiroko AriokaPublished in: Journal of general and family medicine (2018)
Most of the kinds and the number of medications prescribed might not be changed during hospitalization despite those were probably the causes of admission. The factor associated with improvements in polypharmacy was length of hospital stay.