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Comorbidities and Polypharmacy
Heart Failure Clinics, 2014Heart failure (HF) is predominantly a disease that affects the elderly population, a cohort in which comorbidities are common. The majority of comorbidities and the degree of their severity have prognostic implications in HF. Polypharmacy in HF is common, has increased throughout the past 2 decades, and may pose a risk for adverse drug interactions ...
Thomas G, von Lueder, Dan, Atar
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Journal of Infusion Nursing, 2003
Polypharmacy is the concurrent use of several different medications used by the same individual, which in some cases can lead to drug-drug interactions. Elderly patients often are faced with polypharmacy when they have multiple disease processes. Declining organ function, as part of the normal aging process, adds to the problem of adverse drug effects ...
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Polypharmacy is the concurrent use of several different medications used by the same individual, which in some cases can lead to drug-drug interactions. Elderly patients often are faced with polypharmacy when they have multiple disease processes. Declining organ function, as part of the normal aging process, adds to the problem of adverse drug effects ...
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International Journal of Psychiatry in Clinical Practice, 2006
In contrast to research studies that limit the use of concomitant psychotropic medications in the treatment of schizophrenia, polypharmacy is common in real-world, clinical practice. The use of psychotropic medications as an adjunct to antipsychotic agents is often necessitated by the poor response to monotherapy with one antipsychotic agent.
Prakash S, Masand +2 more
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In contrast to research studies that limit the use of concomitant psychotropic medications in the treatment of schizophrenia, polypharmacy is common in real-world, clinical practice. The use of psychotropic medications as an adjunct to antipsychotic agents is often necessitated by the poor response to monotherapy with one antipsychotic agent.
Prakash S, Masand +2 more
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Current Pharmaceutical Design, 2004
The administration of more than one drug for a single medical condition is considered to be polypharmacy. There are many possible reasons for polypharmacy: (1) psychosis is a chronic disease that cannot be cured; (2) expectations to improve patients' quality of life beyond what drugs can actually do is high; (3) the lack of side effects and ...
J, Ananth +2 more
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The administration of more than one drug for a single medical condition is considered to be polypharmacy. There are many possible reasons for polypharmacy: (1) psychosis is a chronic disease that cannot be cured; (2) expectations to improve patients' quality of life beyond what drugs can actually do is high; (3) the lack of side effects and ...
J, Ananth +2 more
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Interprofessional learning on polypharmacy
The Clinical Teacher, 2016Summary Background Prescribing errors remain a continuing patient safety concern. Eradicating error in prescribing requires closer working between doctors and pharmacists. We report on interprofessional learning for medical and pharmacy students on complex polypharmacy in older people.
Lakhani, Neena, Anderson, E.
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Polypharmacy in older adults: a narrative review of definitions, epidemiology and consequences
European Geriatric Medicine, 2021Farhad Pazan +2 more
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Polypharmacy and multiple sclerosis: A population-based study
Multiple Sclerosis Journal, 2023Anibal Chertcoff +2 more
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