Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The practice of prescribing multiple medications for an individual patient, especially excessively, for a single disease.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The prescribeing of too many medicines, especially in one prescription.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act or practice of prescribing too many medicines.
- noun A prescription made up of many medicines or ingredients.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun medicine The use of multiple
drugs in a singleprescription - noun medicine The use of multiple drugs to treat multiple concurrent
disorders in the same patient; especially the indiscriminate prescription of many drugs to elderly patients
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Examples
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"The real message is doctors who care for older patients need to spend a lot of time looking at medications and avoiding what we call polypharmacy which means too many medications," says Dr. Pfohl.
unknown title 2009
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Even though the serious problems with polypharmacy are known and expected, polypharmacy is growing in mental health care, not decreasing.
Homeopathy: A Healthier Way to Treat Depression? Dana Ullman 2010
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Even though the serious problems with polypharmacy are known and expected, polypharmacy is growing in mental health care, not decreasing.
Dana Ullman: Homeopathy: A Healthier Way to Treat Depression? Dana Ullman 2010
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This is called polypharmacy, which is the administration of excessive medications, and Holland said it's one of the leading causes of drug overdoses in the country.
FOXNews.com 2009
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In fact, many of the new blockbuster diseases from adult ADHD and RA to fibromyalgia are treated with new drugs piled on top of existing ones that aren't working, a Pharma contrivance called polypharmacy.
Martha Rosenberg: 7 Diseases Big Pharma Hopes You Get in 2012 Martha Rosenberg 2011
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In fact, many of the new blockbuster diseases from adult ADHD and RA to fibromyalgia are treated with new drugs piled on top of existing ones that aren't working, a Pharma contrivance called polypharmacy.
Martha Rosenberg: 7 Diseases Big Pharma Hopes You Get in 2012 Martha Rosenberg 2011
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In fact, many of the new blockbuster diseases from adult ADHD and RA to fibromyalgia are treated with new drugs piled on top of existing ones that aren't working, a Pharma contrivance called polypharmacy.
Martha Rosenberg: 7 Diseases Big Pharma Hopes You Get in 2012 Martha Rosenberg 2011
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In fact, many of the new blockbuster diseases from adult ADHD and RA to fibromyalgia are treated with new drugs piled on top of existing ones that aren't working, a Pharma contrivance called polypharmacy.
Martha Rosenberg: 7 Diseases Big Pharma Hopes You Get in 2012 Martha Rosenberg 2011
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Not everyone agreed about multidrug combinations commonly called polypharmacy either.
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Not everyone agreed about multidrug combinations commonly called polypharmacy either.
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But taking many medicines simultaneously, known among medical experts as polypharmacy, increases people’s risk of experiencing severe side effects and drug interactions, said Dr. Nina Blachman, an associate professor of medicine and geriatrics at the N.Y.U. Grossman School of Medicine.
Taking Multiple Medications? You May Need to Scale Back. By 2024
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