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Multimed

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ROCA GARCIA, Iliana Cristina et al. Characterization of polypharmacy in older adults consulted in an urban medical office. Multimed [online]. 2021, vol.25, n.2, e2052.  Epub Mar 01, 2021. ISSN 1028-4818.

Polipharmacy in older adults is a frequent health problem. With the objective to characterize polypharmacy in older adults consulted in El Golfo urban medical office, of Jimmy Hirzel Policlinic in Antonio Guiteras locality, Bayamo, Granma; a retrospective, analitic, of medications utilization study was carried out, according to kind of consumption classification with elements of indication-prescription; in the medication chain, this study is centered on prescription. Sample were 40 older adult patients. Theoretical, empiric and statistical methods were used. Collected data was analyzed with IBM SPSS 22 software for Windows. In the study predominated patients from 60 to 64 years old (50%), female gender (60%), hypertension (37 patients) as diagnosed chronic illness, antihypertensives (37 patients) as the most used pharmacological group, association of 4 or 5 medications involved in polypharmacy (82,5%), and captopril (47,5%) as the most prescribed medication. Conclusion was that most older adults used polypharmacy by facultative’s prescription.

Keywords : Polypharmacy; Prescription; Utilization; Medication; Older adult.

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