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Section snippets What is already known • Polypharmacy is common in older adults and is associated with adverse events, poor adherence, increased healthcare costs, and potentially inappropriate medications. • Interprofessional collaboration is essential in managing polypharmacy, even though doctors primarily prescribe medications. • While doctors' and pharmacists' roles in deprescribing are well established, nurses' contributions remain underexplored beyond long-term care.

Conflicts of Interest The authors declare no conflicts of interest. Data Availability Statement The data that support the findings of this study are available on request from the corresponding author. The data are not publicly available due to privacy or ethical restrictions. References 1997. “On the Distributions of Scan Statistics of a Two-Dimensional Poisson Process.” Advances in Applied Probability 29, no. 1: 1. https://doi.org/10.2307/1427857. 2016.

Back to Journals » International Journal of Women's Health » Volume 17 Authors Ruan Z, Yang L , Tu P, Yu D Received 21 August 2025 Accepted for publication 5 December 2025 Published 10 December 2025 Volume 2025:17 Pages 5355—5360 DOI https://doi.org/10.2147/IJWH.S562354 Checked for plagiarism Yes Review by Single anonymous peer review Peer reviewer comments 2 Editor who approved publication: Dr Matteo Frigerio Zhenqiang Ruan,1,* Luan Yang,1,* Ping Tu,2 Debao Yu1 1Department of...