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Applies the standard polypharmacy thresholds of five and ten regular medicines, and adds weighting for high-risk drugs and multiple prescribers.
Polypharmacy thresholds
5 to 9 regular medicines is polypharmacy and 10 or more is hyper-polypharmacy; the composite score adds 2 per high-risk medicine and 1 per additional prescriber
Educational estimate only. Not a substitute for professional clinical judgement, and must not be used to make treatment or dosing decisions.
No. Many long-term conditions require several medicines; the concern is problematic polypharmacy without benefit.
STOPP/START and the Beers criteria identify potentially inappropriate prescribing in older adults.