 Polypharmacy
"Polypharmacy" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The use of multiple drugs administered to the same patient, most commonly seen in elderly patients. It includes also the administration of excessive medication. Since in the United States most drugs are dispensed as single-agent formulations, polypharmacy, though using many drugs administered to the same patient, must be differentiated from DRUG COMBINATIONS, single preparations containing two or more drugs as a fixed dose, and from DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION, two or more drugs administered separately for a combined effect. (From Segen, Dictionary of Modern Medicine, 1992)
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D019338
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E02.319.698
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| 2023 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2015 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2011 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2008 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2006 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2005 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2002 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Polypharmacy" by people in Profiles over the past ten years.
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Winter SG, Sedgwick C, Wallace-Lacey A, Dickerson K, Battar S, Hung W. Informatics Tools in Deprescribing and Medication Optimization in Older Adults: Development and Dissemination of VIONE Methodology in a High Reliability Organization. Clin Ther. 2023 10; 45(10):928-934.
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Carroll C, Ruder L, Miklosovic C, Bauhof RM, Chiec L, Owusu C, Curseen KA, Gupta M. Early Palliative Care for the Geriatric Patient with Cancer. Clin Geriatr Med. 2023 Aug; 39(3):437-448.
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Yin HS, Neuspiel DR, Paul IM, Franklin W, Tieder JS, Adirim T, Alvarez F, Brown JM, Bundy DG, Ferguson LE, Gleeson SP, Leu M, Mueller BU, Connor Phillips S, Quinonez RA, Rea C, Rinke ML, Shaikh U, Shiffman RN, Vickers Saarel E, Spencer Cockerham SP, Mack Walsh K, Jones B, Adler AC, Foster JH, Green TP, Houck CS, Laughon MM, Neville K, Reigart JR, Shenoi R, Sullivan JE, Van Den Anker JN, Verhoef PA. Preventing Home Medication Administration Errors. Pediatrics. 2021 12 01; 148(6).
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Feinstein JA, Hall M, Antoon JW, Thomson J, Flores JC, Goodman DM, Cohen E, Azuine R, Agrawal R, Houtrow AJ, DeCourcey DD, Kuo DZ, Coller R, Gaur DS, Berry JG. Chronic Medication Use in Children Insured by Medicaid: A Multistate Retrospective Cohort Study. Pediatrics. 2019 04; 143(4).
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Nordstrom K, Vilke GM, Wilson MP. Psychiatric Emergencies for Clinicians: Emergency Department Management of Serotonin Syndrome. J Emerg Med. 2016 Jan; 50(1):89-91.
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