Does polypharmacy and potentially inappropriate medication use increase chemotherapy-related toxicity and hospitalization in older adults with cancer undergoing chemotherapy?
In older adults with cancer undergoing chemotherapy, polypharmacy and potentially inappropriate medication use were not associated with increased toxicity or hospitalization.
Polypharmacy and PIM use were common but were not associated with chemotherapy-related toxicity or hospitalization in older adults with cancer.
Maggiore et al. (Tue,) studied this question.