7 Steps
- 7 Steps to Appropriate Polypharmacy
- Step 1: What matters to the patient
- Step 2: Identify essential drug therapy
- Step 3: Does the patient take unnecessary drug therapy?
- Step 4: Are therapeutic objectives being achieved?
- Step 5: Is the patient at risk of ADRs or suffers actual ADRs?
- Step 6: Is drug therapy cost-effective?
- Step 7: Is the patient willing and able to take drug therapy as intended?