The specter of polypharmacy is an ever-increasing problem faced by the health care
professionals. Polypharmacy is the term often used when multiple medications are prescribed in a
patient. Polypharmacy is defined as concomitant use of five or more drugs at the same time in the
same patient. Often, the number of drugs prescribed may not be clinically indicated or the total
numbers of prescribed drugs clinically indicated are too many resulting in the medication burden
(Viktil et al., 2007).