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- W2157723722 abstract "<h3>Background</h3> The use of multiple medications and/or the administration of more medications that are clinically indicated, representing unnecessary drug use (polypharmacy) increases the risk of non-adherence, adverse drug reaction and drug interaction. These problems are specially common and relevant in older hospitalised patients. <h3>Purpose</h3> Analyse the prevalence of polypharmacy at hospital admission and at hospital discharge in a group of older patients, and how the hospital stay modifies this prevalence. <h3>Materials and methods</h3> Patients enrolled in our retrospective study were hospitalised at the Internal Medicine Department during October 2010. Only Patients ³ 75 years old were enrolled. Polypharmacy was defined as the concomitant use of five or more medications and high-level polypharmacy was defined as concomitant use of ten or more medications. The following data were recorded for each patient: sociodemographic details, functional status, Charlson co-morbidity index (predicts the ten-year mortality for a patient who may have a range of co-morbid conditions), diagnoses at discharge, and treatments at hospital admission and discharge. <h3>Results</h3> Of the 109 patients enrolled, 61 were women. The average age was 82,69±5,15 years. At admission, 29,4% of patients were independents. The average of Charlson index was 4,62±2,3. On average, the patients studied were taking 9,01±4,01 drugs at the time of hospital admission and 9,84±3,83 drugs at discharge. Hospitalisation led to a significant increase in the number medications (p=0,001). Polypharmacy on admission and at discharge was observed in 87,2% and 91,8% of patients, respectively; and 42,2% were taking ten or more different drugs at admission and 53,2% at discharge, existing statistically significant difference between high-level polypharmacy at admission and discharge (p=0,036). <h3>Conclusions</h3> Our study confirmed a relatively high prevalence of polypharmacy in older hospitalised patients at the Internal Medicine Department. Hospitalisation led to a significant increase in the number of medications and in the prevalence of the high-level polypharmacy. The high prevalence of polypharmacy in elderly patients shows the need to reevaluate the pharmacotherapy during hospital stay." @default.
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