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Polypharmacy Burden and Potentially Inappropriate Prescribing Among Older Adults in a Ghanaian District Referral Hospital: A Validated Synthetic Cohort Study Using AGS Beers 2023 and STOPP/START v3

2026-07-14

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<h4>Background</h4> Geriatric polypharmacy and potentially inappropriate prescribing (PIP) represent severe iatrogenic safety challenges in sub-Saharan Africa. However, clinical quality auditing in under-resourced settings is routinely impeded by electronic health record (EHR) scarcity and data-privacy constraints. <h4>Objective</h4> To generate, validate, and clinically audit a privacy-preserving synthetic coho...

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10.64898/2026.07.10.26357740
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