[PDF] Top 20 POLYPHARMACY IN ELDERLY PATIENTS AND THEIR PROBLEMS

... process will lower physiological functions, for example; decreased bone density, osteoarthritis, and suffering cataract lens, while the diseases associated with old age, but does not occur in all people (aging ... See full document

... for elderly patients hospitalized in the orthopedic ...contact elderly patients prescribed five or more medications at admission and their families to inform them of the intervention to reduce ... See full document

... geriatric patients with polypharmacy and with complex drug ...of elderly patients to ...and elderly patients should be ...safety problems. Polypharmacy can be ... See full document

... of polypharmacy, while age-related polypathology ...in elderly patients with heart failure (Masoudi et al ...and polypharmacy is an obvious one, mainly for diseases such as diabetes mellitus ... See full document

... the problems faced by elderly because of drug-disease, drug-drug ...the elderly, such as hypertension, are now treated more actively than before, and the threshold of starting medication has become ... See full document

... older patients experiencing ADRs was not being well substantiated by epidemiological data (Hoigné et al ...the elderly might pose a higher risk for acquiring ADR than advanced age as a sole risk factor ... See full document

... pharmacist. Patients using five of more chronic drugs were selected because polypharmacy is generally defined as five or more chronic ...15–20 patients. Patients discharged from psychiatric or ... See full document

... in patients with cerebral infarction or dementia, because these patients have a variety of disabilities, such as cognitive decline, dysphagia, and ...whether patients have taken ... See full document

... and polypharmacy also increased with ...the elderly in 2000 to ...of elderly taking only one medicine or two to four medicines decreased over time to ...to polypharmacy increased to ...of ... See full document

... on polypharmacy and necessitates to be vigilant on drug therapy safety (Subeesh et ...related problems. Conversely, polypharmacy might be appropriate and unavoidable in certain patients, when ... See full document

... decades, problems related to aging, multi-morbidity, and polypharmacy have become a prominent issue in global ...study, Polypharmacy is defined as a concomitant use of five or more drugs ... See full document

... with polypharmacy because it is a marker of disease severity and health status ...in patients with depression (Marazziti et al ...Furthermore, elderly patients are exposed to the risk of ... See full document

... for elderly patients as listed in the Beers ...the elderly, and approve safer alternatives ...regarding Polypharmacy and dangerous drug interactions may help to curb irrational prescriptions ... See full document

... detect problems in drug prescribing such as polypharmacy, inclination for branded products, over use of antibiotics or injections and prescribing out of formulary or essential drugs ...these problems ... See full document

... Overdosage was detected as a major potential DRP and accounted for 24.6% of potential DRPs overall in the analysis using our original categorization. For this rea- son, we analyzed the causes of overdosage and found that ... See full document

... eligible elderly patients who fulfilled the eligibility criteria were ...necessary, patients were interviewed for any ...of polypharmacy were summarised using descriptive statistics and ... See full document

... however, health professionals only detect a small number of adverse effects especially in outpatient populations. Also, balancing the risk of poly pharmacy with the underutilization of appropriate drugs is an important ... See full document

... 311 patients were analyzed, averaging ...of polypharmacy, multimorbidity, feeling difficultly with taking medicines as prescribed, and taking medicines with narrow therapeutic index had negative impacts on ... See full document

... decrease polypharmacy in pediatric ...pediatric patients in the inpatient setting can participate in discharge counseling, which will decrease confu- sion for parents/guardians on drug administration, dose, ... See full document

... of patients affected by poly- pharmacy, a pharmacist specially trained in communication skills performs a narrative-based medication review ...motivated patients to ac- tively contribute to the reduction of ... See full document