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work_ia4e5scbgbdhjdowfc3hnomuma	Thomas Grimmsmann	Polypharmacy in primary care practices: an analysis using a large health insurance database	2009	8	.pdf	application/pdf	5711	519	67	Polypharmacy in primary care practices: an analysis using a large health insurance database prescribing profiles in practices with a high rate of polypharmacy patients (HPP) and a low rate of polypharmacy patients (LPP), respectively. Methods This observational study used a database composed of prescription data from a large German statutory health insurance. defined polypharmacy as the continuous prescription of five or more drugs and calculated the percentage of polypharmacy patients for each Results A total of 136 521 patients in 730 general practices received continuous medication. Copyright # 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. key words — polypharmacy; prescriptions; drug utilisation review; databases; family practice have studied prevalence rates of polypharmacy in 173 practices in a defined region of of practices or doctors with a high rate of polypharmacy prescriptions could also be proxies for other patients ('high' polypharmacy practices, HPP) and to	./cache/work_ia4e5scbgbdhjdowfc3hnomuma.pdf	./txt/work_ia4e5scbgbdhjdowfc3hnomuma.txt