Why the study?
Multiple approaches towards polypharmacy management are advised but vary in complexity, applicability, and usability, with no identifiable gold standard.
Highlights the need for increased use of explicit criteria-based drug reviews to manage polypharmacy in older adults.
May support wider use of explicit criteria in older adults; leaves open need for prospective trials.
Multiple approaches towards polypharmacy management are advised in current literature. They vary in terms of their complexity, applicability and usability, and no "gold standard" is identifiable. For practical reasons, explicit criteria-based drug reviews seem to be advisable. Having in mind that in general, polypharmacy management in the older adults is underused, both individual stakeholders, as well as policymakers should strengthen their efforts to promote these activities more strongly.
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Kurczewska-Michalak et al. (2021) studied this question.
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