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Prevalence and trends of polypharmacy in U.S. adults, 1999–2018
Global Health Research and Policy, 2023 Background Polypharmacy is one of the most important health issues for its potential impacts on disease burden and healthcare costs. The aim of this study was to update a comprehensive picture of prevalence and trends in polypharmacy over 20 years in U.S.
Xiaowen Wang +7 more
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PLoS ONE, 2020 BACKGROUND:While there are advances in medicine and pharmaceutical care, the burden of medication use has also grown with polypharmacy. In this regard, cardiovascular patients are subjected to polypharmacy for a longer period. OBJECTIVE:The present study
Yonas Getaye Tefera +2 more
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Variation of polypharmacy in older primary care attenders occurs at prescriber level
BMC Geriatrics, 2018 Background Polypharmacy is particularly important in older persons as they are more likely to experience adverse events compared to the rest of the population.
Su Miin Ong +3 more
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Defining pediatric polypharmacy: A scoping review.
PLoS ONE, 2018 ObjectivesLack of consensus regarding the semantics and definitions of pediatric polypharmacy challenges researchers and clinicians alike. We conducted a scoping review to describe definitions and terminology of pediatric polypharmacy.MethodsMedline ...
Paul M Bakaki +13 more
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Polypharmacy in Zoological Medicine [PDF]
Pharmaceutics, 2017 Polypharmacy is a term that describes the inappropriate, concurrent use of multiple drugs in an individual patient. Zoological medicine practitioners must take approved agents (veterinary or human) and extrapolate their use to non-approved species often with little species-specific pharmacological evidence to support their decisions.
Robert Hunter, Ramiro Isaza
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PLoS ONEBackgroundDementia is accompanied by several symptoms, including cognitive function decline, as well as behavioral and psychological symptoms. Elderly patients with dementia often experience polypharmacy, the concurrent use of multiple medications, due ...
Hea-Lim Kim, Hye-Jae Lee
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Polypharmacy in Elderly: Overview, Prevalence and Psychiatric Perspectives
Journal of the Indian Academy of Geriatrics, 2019 Introduction: Ageing is a natural phenomenon that is accompanied by a cascade of unwanted and unintended circumstances or problems that are always undesirable but not still avoidable.
Priya Sharma, P Khuda, N L Gupta
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Journal of Primary Care & Community Health, 2023 Objectives: To investigate the prevalence and predictors of excessive polypharmacy in geriatric inpatients in Indonesia. Methods: This retrospective cross-sectional study included 1533 inpatients over the age of 60 years at Universitas Airlangga Hospital,
Shah Faisal +5 more
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Is Excessive Polypharmacy a Transient or Persistent Phenomenon? A Nationwide Cohort Study in Taiwan
Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2018 Objectives: Target populations with persistent polypharmacy should be identified prior to implementing strategies against inappropriate medication use, yet limited information regarding such populations is available.
Yi-Jen Wang +12 more
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Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2020 Despite clinical guidelines limiting the use of multiple concomitant antipsychotics to the most exceptional and treatment resistant cases, the prevalence of antipsychotic polypharmacy has been increasing worldwide.
Christian Farrell, Johann Brink
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