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Polypharmacy

Posted on April 27, 2016 by James J. Murray, Fiction Writer

Population aging in first world countries is a growing concern for many reasons. One of those involves the issue of polypharmacy in the older adult. Polypharmacy is defined as a patient using four or more medications concurrently and statistics show … Continue reading →

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