Increasing Trends of Polypharmacy and Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use in Older Lung Cancer Patients in China: A Repeated Cross-Sectional Study.

Front Pharmacol · 2022 · PMC9340379 · PMID 35924052

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The number of medications and diseases showed an increasing trend from 2016 to 2018.

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The prevalence of rational prescriptions increased from 91.22% ( n = 914) in 2016 to 93.65% ( n = 1194) in 2018, but the average prescription expenditure showed a decreasing trend from 1,260.77 CNY per prescription in 2016 to 1,170.45 CNY per prescription in 2018 ( Figure 1 ).

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