RxISK

Making Medicines Safer for All of Us

RxISK Polypharmacy Index

Too many drugs?

Could you be on too many drugs?

Answer the following 10 questions to assess the risk of your taking a mixture of drugs that is of more harm than benefit to you. We will email you a record of your answers along with your RxISK Polypharmacy Index.

The higher the number, the more important it is that you have a conversation with your doctor.

Read more about the problems of polypharmacy in a post by Dr. Dee Mangin.

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1. Do you have more than 3 medical conditions?*
2. Do you take 5 or more medications regularly?*
3. Do you take 12 or more medication doses each day?*
4. How many people write prescriptions for you?*
5. Have you had more than 3 changes to your medications in the last year?*
6. When was your last appointment for an overall review of all of your medications?*
7. Have you wondered if you are experiencing medication side effects?*
8. Are you over 65 years of age?*
9. Do any of your drugs need monitoring with blood tests? (common examples are warfarin, digoxin, carbamazepine, lithium, phenytoin but there are many others)*
10. Do you take non prescribed medications (including painkillers) or supplements regularly?*
Email address to send record of results*
Follow-up*
May we use this email address to contact you in the future for follow-up questions. For example, this would be to follow up on the outcomes you had after completing the questionnaire and whether, or how, it was useful to you.
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