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Pharmacy

the use of multiple medicines at once, often defined as five or more.

In pharmacy, polypharmacy refers to the use of multiple medicines at once, often defined as five or more. This meaning comes from Masnoon (2017) in BMC Geriatrics.[1]

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Masnoon, N., Shakib, S., Kalisch-Ellett, L., & Caughey, G. E. (2017). What is polypharmacy? A systematic review of definitions. BMC Geriatrics, 17(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-017-0621-2

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