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Excessive polypharmacy and potentially inappropriate prescribing in 147 care homes: a cross-sectional study

Clare MacRae, David AG Henderson, Stewart W Mercer, Jenni Burton, Nicosha De Souza, Paula Grill, Charis Marwick and Bruce Guthrie
BJGP Open 2021; 5 (6): BJGPO.2021.0167. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3399/BJGPO.2021.0167
Clare MacRae
Centre for Population Health Sciences, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK 1
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David AG Henderson
Centre for Population Health Sciences, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK 1
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  • For correspondence: David.Henderson{at}ed.ac.uk
Stewart W Mercer
Centre for Population Health Sciences, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK 1
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Jenni Burton
2 Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
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Nicosha De Souza
3 Population Health and Genomics, School of Medicine, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK
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3 Population Health and Genomics, School of Medicine, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK
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vol. 5 no. 6 BJGPO.2021.0167
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https://doi.org/10.3399/BJGPO.2021.0167
PubMed 
34620596

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  • Received September 8, 2021
  • Accepted September 28, 2021
  • Published online December 14, 2021.

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  1. Clare MacRae1,†,
  2. David AG Henderson1,*,†,
  3. Stewart W Mercer1,
  4. Jenni Burton2,
  5. Nicosha De Souza3,
  6. Paula Grill3,
  7. Charis Marwick3 and
  8. Bruce Guthrie1
  1. Centre for Population Health Sciences, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK 1
  2. 2 Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
  3. 3 Population Health and Genomics, School of Medicine, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK
  1. ↵ *For correspondence:
    David AG Henderson, David.Henderson{at}ed.ac.uk
  1. ↵† These authors contributed equally to this work

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