Population
147 adults ⩾ 65 years taking three or more medications who were hospitalized for medical illness and…
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
two weeks
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May warrant post-discharge adherence monitoring in cognitively impaired elderly; hypothesis-generating for intervention trials on polypharmacy.
Medication under- and overadherence are common in elderly patients after hospital discharge, with poor cognition and polypharmacy being significant predictors of underadherence.
Gray et al. (2001) studied this question.
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