With all the talk about the risks of "polypharmacy" – being prescribed more than five medications – it might be surprising to learn that not receiving enough of the right prescriptions can also significantly increase your risk of being hospitalized or dying.
Yet that is exactly what a new study from Belgium finds.
“Absence of polypharmacy is not a simple indicator of quality of care,” Dr. Maarten Wauters from Ghent University told Reuters Health. “Patients with just a few medications could be at risk of missing essential and beneficial medications.”
Wauters’ team looked for possible links between prescriptions and hospitalizations and death . . .
