نتایج جستجو برای: Polypharmacy

تعداد نتایج: 3121  

Journal: :nursing and midwifery studies 0
tania hammond lower eyre health services, cummins and districts memorial hospital, australia anne wilson school of medicine, university of new south wales, flinders university of south australia, bedford park, australia; corresponding author: anne wilson, school of medicine, university of new south wales, flinders university of south australia, bedford park, australia. tel.:+61-882955875, e-mail:

conclusions polypharmacy as an independent variable has been linked to falls in older people, however there appears to be a stronger link between falls and the type of medications taken (e.g. medications known to increase risk of falls), rather than polypharmacy on its own. polypharmacy can sometimes be therapeutic and it may be more beneficial to consider terms such as ‘inappropriate prescribi...

Introduction: Socioeconomic status (SES) indicators are among the main social determinants of health and illness. Less, however, is known about the role of SES in the epidemiology of polypharmacy in immigrant Latino Americans living in the United States. This research studied the association between three SES indicators, education, income, and employment, and polypharmacy in ol...

Objectives: To investigate association between Polypharmacy and socio-demographic factors (including age, sex, education, and smoking) between the elderly residents of Kahrizak Charity Foundation (KCF). Methods & Materials: In a descriptive analytic cross-sectional study, 237 (134 female) elderly residents of KCF, aged 60 and more, included trough randomized cluster sampling, were studied fo...

Introduction: Prescribing and consuming drugs more than necessary which is known as polypharmacy, is both waste of resources and harm to patients. Polypharmacy is especially important for elderly patients; therefore, the factors affecting it must be identified and analyzed properly. Method: In this retrospective study, first, several classifier algorithms, i.e., C4.5, SVM, KNN, MLP, and BN for ...

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Prescribing the overdose of medicatioin or polypharmacy for a patient is not principally recommended. Although , studies indicate that the usage of polypharmacy, specially from different groups of medicines, and in particular for refractory patients to treatment, if it is prescribed carefully, not only is beneficial but is necessary too. From the total patients who refer to medical doctors for ...

2013
Martin Duerden Tony Avery Rupert Payne

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2010
Bo Hovstadius Karl Hovstadius Bengt Åstrand Göran Petersson

BACKGROUND An increase in the use of drugs and polypharmacy have been displayed over time in spite of the fact that polypharmacy represents a well known risk factor as regards patients' health due to the adverse drug reactions, drug-drug interactions, and low adherence to drug therapy arising from polypharmacy. For policymakers, as well as for clinicians, it is important to follow the developin...

2016
Máire O'Dwyer Jure Peklar Philip McCallion Mary McCarron Martin C Henman

OBJECTIVES (1) To evaluate the prevalence of polypharmacy (5-9 medicines) and excessive polypharmacy (10+ medicines) and (2) to determine associated demographic and clinical characteristics in an ageing population with intellectual disabilities (IDs). DESIGN Observational cross-sectional study. SETTING Wave One (2009/2010) of the Intellectual Disability Supplement to the Irish Longitudinal ...

2018
Yi-Jen Wang Shu-Chiung Chiang Pei-Chen Lee Yu-Chun Chen Li-Fang Chou Yueh-Ching Chou Tzeng-Ji Chen

Objectives: Target populations with persistent polypharmacy should be identified prior to implementing strategies against inappropriate medication use, yet limited information regarding such populations is available. The main objectives were to explore the trends of excessive polypharmacy, whether transient or persistent, at the individual level. The secondary objectives were to identify the fa...

2018
Lucas Morin Kristina Johnell Marie-Laure Laroche Johan Fastbom Jonas W Wastesson

Objective Polypharmacy is the concomitant use of several drugs by a single person, and it increases the risk of adverse drug-related events in older adults. Little is known about the epidemiology of polypharmacy at the population level. We aimed to measure the prevalence and incidence of polypharmacy and to investigate the associated factors. Methods A prospective cohort study was conducted u...

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