Open AccessPrescribed-drug utilization and polypharmacy in a general population in Greece: association with sociodemographic, health needs, health-services utilization, and lifestyle factors
Author(s) -
Evelina Pappa,
Nick Kontodimopoulos,
Angelos Papadopoulos,
Yannis Tountas,
Dimitris Niakas
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
european journal of clinical pharmacology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.845
H-Index - 108
eISSN - 1432-1041
pISSN - 0031-6970
DOI - 10.1007/s00228-010-0940-0
Subject(s) - polypharmacy , medicine , comorbidity , obesity , logistic regression , population , odds ratio , gerontology , cross sectional study , environmental health , demography , psychiatry , pathology , sociology
Our aim was to analyze, in a multivariate framework, how sociodemographic, health-service utilization, health needs, and lifestyle risk factors influence drug utilization and polypharmacy (PP) in a general population in Greece.
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