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Polypharmacy among the elderly in the Republic of Srpska: extent and implications for the future

Vanda Marković-PekovićDepartment of Pharmacy, Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Banja Luka, Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina;Medical Faculty, Department of Social Pharmacy, University Banja Luka, Banja Luka, Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Ranko ŠkrbićMedical Faculty, Department of Clinical Pharmacology, University Banja Luka, Banja Luka, Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Aleksandar PetrovićRačunari, Banja Luka, Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Vera Vlahović-PalčevskiDepartment of Clinical Pharmacology, University Hospital, Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia
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Jana MrakControl Department, Health Insurance Institute of Slovenia, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Marion BenniePublic Health and Intelligence Strategic Business Unit, NHS National Services Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland;Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
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Joseph FadareDepartments of Pharmacology/Medicine, Ekiti State University/Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital, Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria
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Hye-Young KwonDepartment of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA;Institute of Health and Environment, Graduate School of Public Health, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
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Krijn SchiffersInstitute of Health Policy and Management, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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Ilse TruterDrug Utilization Research Unit (DURU), Department of Pharmacy, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa
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Brian GodmanStrathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK;Department of Laboratory Medicine, Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, Stockholm, SwedenCorrespondence[email protected] [email protected]
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Pages 609-618 | Received 21 Jul 2015, Accepted 29 Oct 2015, Published online: 15 Dec 2015

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