Polypharmacy in primary care: A population-based retrospective cohort study of electronic health records

• Thomas Woodcock ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Thomas Woodcock, Derryn Lovett, Gloria Ihenetu, Vesselin Novov

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: thomas.woodcock99@imperial.ac.uk

  Affiliations Department of Primary Care and Public Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, Department of Primary Care and Public Health, NIHR ARC Northwest London, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4735-4856

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• Derryn Lovett ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Thomas Woodcock, Derryn Lovett, Gloria Ihenetu, Vesselin Novov

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Primary Care and Public Health, NIHR ARC Northwest London, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, Chelsea And Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6338-5919

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• Gloria Ihenetu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Thomas Woodcock, Derryn Lovett, Gloria Ihenetu, Vesselin Novov

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Primary Care and Public Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, Department of Primary Care and Public Health, NIHR ARC Northwest London, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

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• Vesselin Novov ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Thomas Woodcock, Derryn Lovett, Gloria Ihenetu, Vesselin Novov

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Primary Care and Public Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, Department of Primary Care and Public Health, NIHR ARC Northwest London, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

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• Thomas Beaney ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ TB, KA, AQ, AM and PA also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Department of Primary Care and Public Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, Department of Primary Care and Public Health, NIHR ARC Northwest London, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

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• Keivan Armani ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ TB, KA, AQ, AM and PA also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Department of Primary Care and Public Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, Department of Primary Care and Public Health, NIHR ARC Northwest London, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

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• Angela Quilley ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ TB, KA, AQ, AM and PA also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Primary Care and Public Health, NIHR ARC Northwest London, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

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• Azeem Majeed ,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ TB, KA, AQ, AM and PA also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Department of Primary Care and Public Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, Department of Primary Care and Public Health, NIHR ARC Northwest London, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

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• Paul Aylin

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ TB, KA, AQ, AM and PA also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Department of Primary Care and Public Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, Department of Primary Care and Public Health, NIHR ARC Northwest London, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

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