General principles of pharmacotherapy selection in elderly patients for different comorbidities
According to the data, more than 50% of elderly patients with mental disorders have at least one comorbidity and are treated with multiple medications (e.g. 5 or more medications), which can lead to problems in medication selection and medically unnecessary polypharmacy (i.e., irrational polypharmac...
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Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2022-06-01
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Series: | European Psychiatry |
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Online Access: | https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0924933822001523/type/journal_article |