In the study cited to support the claim that 30 per cent of hospital admissions in Australia for patients aged over 75 are medicine-related, more involve non-compliance or non-use of a medicine than adverse events related to 'polypharmacy'.
Repeated claims about safety that often do not reflect the full story of studies
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