Potential drug-related problems detected by routine pharmaceutical interventions: safety and economic contributions made by hospital pharmacists in Japan

Table 4 Top five drug classes in which polypharmacy was avoided by pharmacist intervention

	Drug class	Number of cases
1	Antiulcer drug^a	110
2	Antihypertensive	19
3	Anticoagulant / Antiplatelet drug	18
4	Antibiotics	17
5	Antidiabetic agent	16

^aPotassium-competitive acid blocker, proton pump inhibitor, H₂ receptor inhibitor, and other mucosal protectants

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