AcademyHealth: Polypharmacy

Multiple chronic conditions and the taking of many prescription medications to treat them — polypharmacy — are common among the elderly. Studies have found an association of polypharmacy with adverse outcomes. An important question is, to what extent does polypharmacy cause bad outcomes? And, if it’s causal, what can be done?

Read my latest AcademyHealth post for more.

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Austin Frakt

Austin Frakt, PhD, is co-Editor-in-Chief of The Incidental Economist. His day job is Associate Director of the Partnered Evidence-based Policy Resource Center at the Boston VA Healthcare System, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. He is also a Professor with the Department of Health Law, Policy and Management at the Boston University’s School of Public Health, a Principal Research Scientist with the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Health Services Research.

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