Prevalence and Factors Associated With Polypharmacy Use Among Adult Patients in Saudi Arabia.

Journal of Patient Safety
Bander BalkhiHisham Aljadhey

Abstract

Polypharmacy is very common in clinical practice, especially among adult patients. The use of multiple medications may increase the risk of adverse drug events, medication cost, and medication errors. In addition, polypharmacy exacerbates treatment complexity, which consequently leads to poor patients' adherence to their medications. Despite being a well-recognized problem, few studies have investigated the prevalence and predictors of polypharmacy in Saudi Arabia. The aims of the study were to investigate the prevalence of polypharmacy among adult patients in a tertiary teaching hospital and to determine patients' characteristics that are associated with polypharmacy. This was a retrospective cross-sectional study using data extracted from the electronic health records database for a period of 6 months between January and June 2016 in outpatient setting. Descriptive statistics were used to analyze the study sample. A multivariate logistic regression model was used to examine the association between different variables and polypharmacy. Statistical analysis software (SAS 9.2) was used to analyze the study data. A total of 17,237 observations (67.2% females) were included in the final analysis. Of these, nearly 54% (n = 9222) of...Continue Reading

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