 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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| 2003 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2006 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2007 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2008 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2010 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2014 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2015 | 4 | 3 | 7 | | 2016 | 3 | 2 | 5 | | 2017 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 2018 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2019 | 4 | 2 | 6 | | 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Polypharmacy" by people in Profiles.
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Horace AE, Golchin N, Knight EMP, Dawson NV, Ma X, Feinstein JA, Johnson HK, Kleinman L, Bakaki PM. A Scoping Review of Medications Studied in Pediatric Polypharmacy Research. Paediatr Drugs. 2020 Feb; 22(1):85-94.
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Damluji AA, Forman DE, van Diepen S, Alexander KP, Page RL, Hummel SL, Menon V, Katz JN, Albert NM, Afilalo J, Cohen MG. Older Adults in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit: Factoring Geriatric Syndromes in the Management, Prognosis, and Process of Care: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association. Circulation. 2020 01 14; 141(2):e6-e32.
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Goyal P, Gorodeski EZ, Flint KM, Goldwater DS, Dodson JA, Afilalo J, Maurer MS, Rich MW, Alexander KP, Hummel SL. Perspectives on Implementing a Multidomain Approach to Caring for Older Adults With Heart Failure. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2019 12; 67(12):2593-2599.
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Akgün KM, Krishnan S, Feder SL, Tate J, Kutner JS, Crothers K. Polypharmacy Increases Risk of Dyspnea Among Adults With Serious, Life-Limiting Diseases. Am J Hosp Palliat Care. 2020 Apr; 37(4):278-285.
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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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Baker C, Feinstein JA, Ma X, Bolen S, Dawson NV, Golchin N, Horace A, Kleinman LC, Meropol SB, Pestana Knight EM, Winterstein AG, Bakaki PM. Variation of the prevalence of pediatric polypharmacy: A scoping review. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2019 03; 28(3):275-287.
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Schenker Y, Park SY, Jeong K, Pruskowski J, Kavalieratos D, Resick J, Abernethy A, Kutner JS. Associations Between Polypharmacy, Symptom Burden, and Quality of Life in Patients with Advanced, Life-Limiting Illness. J Gen Intern Med. 2019 04; 34(4):559-566.
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Bakaki PM, Horace A, Dawson N, Winterstein A, Waldron J, Staley J, Pestana Knight EM, Meropol SB, Liu R, Johnson H, Golchin N, Feinstein JA, Bolen SD, Kleinman LC. Defining pediatric polypharmacy: A scoping review. PLoS One. 2018; 13(11):e0208047.
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Brittan MS, Martin S, Anderson L, Moss A, Torok MR. An Electronic Health Record Tool Designed to Improve Pediatric Hospital Discharge has Low Predictive Utility for Readmissions. J Hosp Med. 2018 11 01; 13(11):779-782.
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Glode AE, Bodge M, Culver ME. Geriatric assessments and medication management in elderly oncology patients. Consult Pharm. 2017 Aug; 32 Suppl B:1-20.
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