Sentences with word «polypharmacy»

Two factors were identified as strong predictors of antipsychotic polypharmacy: a diagnosis of schizophrenia and an inpatient stay of 90 days or more.

He points out that their new work demonstrates the need for more sophisticated and nuanced approaches when measuring the impact of polypharmacy in future clinical research.

Nursing home residency, number of non-psychotropic medications used in 2011, and prior psychiatric diagnosis were associated with psychotropic polypharmacy among antipsychotic drug users.

We aimed to analyze the risk of non-cancer mortality according to duration of antipsychotic use and to compare the risk associated with polypharmacy and monotherapy among community - dwellers with Alzheimer's disease (AD).

«Best practices for polypharmacy must be developed to not only include the healthcare practitioners, pharmacists and pharmacy technicians who interact with patients, but also include the patients as well.»

Objective: To investigate the prevalence and predictors associated with use of psychotropic polypharmacy in patients with dementia.

It is notable that over 15 % of physicians recommended two or more psychoactive medications for this patient (a Third grade student), reflecting some concerns that have been raised regarding increased rates of polypharmacy use in young children.

For elderly patients, the use of essential oils may help reduce polypharmacy.

«Antipsychotic polypharmacy continues at a high enough rate to impact nearly 10,000 patients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia each year in state psychiatric inpatient hospitals,» write Glorimar Ortiz, Vera Hollen, and Lucille Schacht, of the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors Research Institute (NRI) in Falls Church, Virginia, which supported the study.

Second, the researchers found that polypharmacy near the end of life is fueled not only by drugs prescribed for the purpose of symptom management (e.g. analgesics), but also by the frequent continuation of long - term preventive treatments and disease - targeted drugs.

In the context of end - of - life care, polypharmacy also raises important ethical questions about the potential futility of treatments close to death.

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Because the mechanisms of development of neuropathic pain are multifactorial, appropriate polypharmacy is likely to be more effective than treatment with single agents.

Supplemental medications such as trazodone and supplements such as L - theanine, alpha casozepine, Magnolia and Phellodendron extracts, tryptophan, and huperzine A provide additional options, including polypharmacy.

«The problem is that there is no science to support polypharmacy, and it's probably bad for patients,» he said at the meeting.

The most common reason for antipsychotic polypharmacy was to «reduce symptoms» — cited for 37 percent of patients.

The medical assistant reviews the medication list for polypharmacy, or multiple prescriptions administered together, which is common among the elderly.

Abstract: We aimed to analyze the risk of non-cancer mortality according to duration of antipsychotic use and to compare the risk associated with polypharmacy and monotherapy among community - dwellers with Alzheimer's disease (AD).

In recent years, measures have been introduced to reduce the rate of «antipsychotic polypharmacy» — taking more than one antipsychotic drug — among patients with schizophrenia and other serious mental illnesses.

The results highlight the need for continued efforts to reduce the rate of antipsychotic polypharmacy.

Most schizophrenia treatment guidelines recommend against using antipsychotic polypharmacy, or using it only as a last resort.

In 2011, the Joint Commission introduced performance measures to reduce antipsychotic polypharmacy.

The results «provide insights into quality initiatives that could help further reduce the use of antipsychotic polypharmacy and reduce practices that are not consistent with best - practice guidelines,» the researchers write.

Doctors call the situation where people take many drugs «polypharmacy», a state of affairs that is becoming increasingly common in part because we have more elderly people and also a rising number of people are being diagnosed with multiple health conditions.

Dr Payne says that previous studies have missed the different effect that polypharmacy has in different people because they used overly simplistic approaches when looking at the effect of taking many drugs at once.

«The commonly - held assumption that polypharmacy is always hazardous and represents poor care is misleading.

«High rates of psychotropic medication use, polypharmacy and problems in continuity of care have raised alarms about whether youth in the foster care system may be receiving inappropriate treatments for the symptoms they present,» Bertram says.

Shorter consultation length has also been associated with multiple drugs prescribed to a patient (polypharmacy), overuse of antibiotics, and poor communication with patients, the researchers add.

This practice is known as «polypharmacy,» and can lead to drug - drug interactions and serious adverse effects.

Keywords: Antidepressant drugs, antipsychotic drugs, dementia, pharmacoepidemiology, polypharmacy, psychotropic drugs

Antipsychotic polypharmacy and long - term use should be avoided and drug choice should be weighed against risk / benefit evidence.

«The greatest public health challenge we face is threefold: getting medicines to market quicker without jeopardising their safety, balancing the co-morbidity and polypharmacy of an ageing population and dragging all stakeholders out of their silos to work together.»

Compared with nonuse, antipsychotic polypharmacy (aHR 2.88; 95 % CI 2.38 — 3.49) was associated with an increased risk of mortality than monotherapy (aHR 1.57; 95 % CI 1.49 — 1.66).

Publication: «Polypharmacy with antipsychotics, antidepressants or benzodiazepines and mortality in schizophrenia», Jari Tiihonen, Jaana T. Suokas, Jaana M. Suvisaari, Jari Haukka, Pasi Korhonen, Archives of General Psychiatry, online early publication 7 May 2012.

If you suffer from more than one ailment — from diabetes and arthritis, for example — the polypharmacy multiplies even further.

Polypharmacy is the practice of simultaneously taking a number of different drugs to treat a range of symptoms of an ailment.

Polypharmacy, the use of five or more prescription medications, is common among seniors.

Polypharmacy — the use of multiple drugs — is part of the problem.

And the polypharmacy begins...

While some may have polypharmacy (taking several kinds of medication for diagnosed conditions), others may suffer through daily aches and pains due to conditions such as fibromyalgia to arthritis.

Homeopathy is opposed to polypharmacy.

«Polypharmacy has its advantages for patient care, but it can be a slippery slope and create unwanted, negative effects and outcomes in patient care,» Barthels says.