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Polypharmacy guidance: realistic prescribing
7 Steps
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7 Steps
Polypharmacy guidance: realistic prescribing
Scottish Government Effective Prescribing & Therapeutics Division
7 Steps to appropriate polypharmacy - (view image - opens in new browser window)
Step 1: What matters to the patient
Step 2: Identify essential drug therapy
Step 3: Does the patient take unnecessary drug therapy?
Step 4: Are therapeutic objectives being achieved?
Step 5: Is the patient at risk of ADRs or suffers actual ADRs?
Step 6: Is drug therapy cost-effective?
Step 7: Is the patient willing and able to take drug therapy as intended?
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Polypharmacy guidance: realistic prescribing
