Incidence of Drug-Drug Interactions and Unhealthy Outcomes due to Polypharmacy in Punjab, Pakistan

Polypharmacy mean the use of multiple drugs in a single prescription having four or more drugs which are sometimes relevant or sometimes irrelevant. Polypharmacy is increasingly becoming common in Punjab, Pakistan. The reason of popularity of Polypharmacy is that people especially elders did not take medicines properly due to less communication between patient, pharmacist and doctor. The other reason of Polypharmacy is that single medicine is not effective due to medication errors. The present research work based on the data collection from different hospitals on polypharmacy. It found drug-drug interaction in this multiple drug regimen but doctors claim no interaction found in this multiple drug therapy. So it is un-debatable thing found regarding this research data collection.