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Descriptor English:
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Polypharmacy
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Descriptor Spanish:
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Polifarmacia
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Descriptor Portuguese:
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Polimedicação
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Synonyms English:
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Polymedication
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Tree Number:
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E02.319.698
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Definition English:
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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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Indexing Annotation English:
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note category: do not confuse with POLYPHARMACOLOGY, the design or use of drugs acting on multiple targets or pathways or with PHARMACOLOGY, the discipline or with DRUG COMBINATIONS or with POLYCHEMOTHERAPY see DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION
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See Related English:
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Drug Antagonism
Drug Combinations
Drug Overdose
Drug Therapy, Combination
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History Note English:
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97
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Record Number:
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33105
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Unique Identifier:
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D019338
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Similar:
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DeCS
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