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Polypharmacy

Polypharmacy (polypragmasia) is an umbrella term to describe the simultaneous use of multiple medicines by a patient for their conditions. The term polypharmacy is often defined as regularly taking five or more medicines, but there is no standard definition, and the term has also been used when a person is prescribed 2 or more medications at the same…

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Risks of polypharmacy

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Polypharmacy

Nodes88
Edges87
Triples101
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.022727
Components1

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Polypharmacy

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related to External links · 32
Polypharmacy → American Nurses Association, Appropriate Prescribing, Archived, Chapel Hill, Congress, Council, December, Directors, Effective Use, Gerontological Nursing, Information, Long-term Medication, Medicine, National Association, North Carolina, Nursing Practice, October, Older Adult, Older Adults, Patients
related to Interventions · 11
Polypharmacy → ADE, Comorbid Health, Dementia As, Deprescribing, MATCH-D, Several, STOPP/START, The, The Beers Criteria, The Medication Appropriateness Tool, This
related to Risks of polypharmacy · 9
Polypharmacy → Beers Criteria, Examples, It, Many, Medicine, Poorer, Potentially, The, These
related to Appropriate medical uses · 7
Polypharmacy → Appropriate, Contraindications, NMDA, NSAIDS, Often, This, While
related to Pill burden · 6
Polypharmacy → Finally, High, It, Pill, Poor, The
related to Special populations · 5
Polypharmacy → About, It, Marginalized, Note, People
causes · 1
Polypharmacy → the poorer health or if polypharmacy is used because of the poorer health

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medications also risk deprescribing medication prescribed multiple drug older use people may burden care adverse include pill associated conditions increased

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Polypharmacycausesthe poorer health or if polypharmacy is used because of the poorer health0.90text
poorly handled care transitionsinstance ofowing to problems0.80text
antiepilepticsinstance ofwhere atypical agents0.80text
antidepressantsinstance ofwhere atypical agents0.80text
muscle relaxantsinstance ofwhere atypical agents0.80text
NMDA antagonistsinstance ofwhere atypical agents0.80text
and other medications are combined with more typical analgesics such as opioidsinstance ofwhere atypical agents0.80text
prostaglandin inhibitorsinstance ofwhere atypical agents0.80text
NSAIDSinstance ofwhere atypical agents0.80text
othersinstance ofwhere atypical agents0.80text
midazolam or propofolinstance ofincluding hypnotics or analgesic inducing/maintenance agents0.80text
usually an opioid analgesic such as morphine or fentanylinstance ofincluding hypnotics or analgesic inducing/maintenance agents0.80text

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