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چکیده : 

Background: Polypharmacy has been shown to influence outcomes in elderly patients. However, the impact of

medication regimen complexity, quantified by the Medication Regimen Complexity Index (MRCI), on health outcomes

after discharge of elderly patients has not been studied.

Objective: Our aim was to test the convergent, discriminant, and predictive validity of the MRCI in older hospitalized

patients with varying functional and cognitive levels.

Methods: We retrospectively applied the MRCI to the medication regimen of 212 hospitalized patients and assessed

its validity.

Results: The mean (SD) MRCI scores for medication regimens and number of medications at discharge were 30.27

(13.95) and 5.95 (2.40), respectively. The MRCI scores were strongly correlated with the number of medications

(r 0.94, P 0.001) and the number of daily doses (r 0.87, P 0.001) and increased as the number of medications

taken 3 times daily increased (27.35, 34.45, and 43.00 for none, 1, and 2 drugs, respectively; P 0.001).