polypharmacy

Although polypharmacy can be appropriate, it is more often inappropriate.

Some patients, however, require polypharmacy, the use of two or more anticonvulsants.

Complex health issues, polypharmacy, and recently approved medications are also addressed.

Measures can be taken to limit polypharmacy to its truly legitimate and appropriate needs.

The risk of drug interactions is increased with polypharmacy.

They are more likely to be subject to polypharmacy and the harmful interactions of potent drugs.

A downward dose adjustment may be necessary with this particular instance of polypharmacy.

Similar programs are likely to reduce the potentially deleterious consequences of polypharmacy.

Elderly people particularly are subjected to polypharmacy (taking multiple medications).

Even if you always see the same doctor, a periodic review of what you take can help prevent polypharmacy problems.

More than ten per cent of elderly people need to take five or more different drugs every day - a situation known as polypharmacy.

Reducing the Risk There are many ways patients and their doctors can avoid the hazards of polypharmacy.

The term polypharmacy lacks a universally consistent definition.

Polypharmacy: The more drugs a patient takes the more likely it will be that some of them will interact.

This is brought about by polypharmacy.

This polypharmacy may result in many drug interactions and may cause some adverse drug reactions.

The use of polypharmacy is correlated to the use of potentially inappropriate medications.

Absence of use in at-risk groups, such as hospitalized and polypharmacy patients, who tend to have the majority of drug interactions.

Whether or not combined drug intoxication was in fact the cause, there is little doubt that polypharmacy contributed significantly to Presley's premature death.

Note, however, that the term polypharmacy and its variants generally refer to legal drug use as-prescribed, even when used in a negative or critical context.

Letters: Haemoperfusion may be useful in phenprobamate and polypharmacy intoxication of paediatric patients.

Noncompliance with doctor's orders - taking too little or too much of a prescribed drug - is a major cause of polypharmacy.

Concerns about polypharmacy include increased adverse drug reactions, drug-drug interactions, prescribing cascade, and higher costs.

(Pharmaceutical compounding is the practice of preparing individualized drug products for individual patients, which can aid with polypharmacy.)

It is not uncommon for those dependent or addicted to substances to enter or remain in a state of polypharmacy misuse.