A nationwide survey of hospital pharmacist interventions to improve polypharmacy for patients with cancer in palliative care in Japan

• Main Authors: Mayako Uchida (Author), Shinya Suzuki (Author), Hideki Sugawara (Author), Yukio Suga (Author), Hideya Kokubun (Author), Yoshihiro Uesawa (Author), Takayuki Nakagawa (Author), Hisamitsu Takase (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background There is no nationwide data on polypharmacy in palliative care in Japan. In this study, the research committee of the Japanese Society for Pharmaceutical Palliative Care and Sciences conducted an online survey on polypharmacy and inappropriate prescriptions involving its members...