How does this guideline aim to help?

Polypharmacy Guidance, Realistic Prescribing 2018, provides expert knowledge, structure and tools to enable targeted polypharmacy management through:

• Structured 7-Steps patient-centred medicines review
• Increased knowledge of medicines safety with the Anticholinergic Burden and Cumulative Toxicity tools
• Worked examples as case studies
• Hot topics and further advice on how to stop medication
• Validated Polypharmacy Indicators to target Case Finding, identify prevalence and monitor Clinical Outcomes