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Descriptor English: | Polypharmacy | ||||||
Descriptor Spanish: |
Polifarmacia
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Descriptor Portuguese: | Polimedicação | ||||||
Descriptor French: | Polypharmacie | ||||||
Entry term(s): |
Polymédication |
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Tree number(s): |
E02.319.698 N02.421.380.450.188.500 N05.300.150.395.450.188.500 |
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RDF Unique Identifier: | https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D019338 | ||||||
Scope note: | 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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Annotation: | note category: do not confuse with POLYPHARMACOLOGY, the design or use of drugs acting on multiple targets or pathways or with PHARMACOLOGY, the discipline or with DRUG COMBINATIONS or with POLYCHEMOTHERAPY see DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION |
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Allowable Qualifiers: | No qualifiers | ||||||
Related: |
Antagonisme des médicaments
MeSH Association de médicaments MeSH Association médicamenteuse MeSH Mauvais usage des médicaments prescrits MeSH | ||||||
DeCS ID: | 33105 | ||||||
Unique ID: | D019338 | ||||||
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): | Click here to access the VHL documents | ||||||
Date Established: | 1997/01/01 | ||||||
Date of Entry: | 1996/06/10 | ||||||
Revision Date: | 2017/02/24 |
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TECHNIQUES ET ÉQUIPEMENTS ANALYTIQUES, DIAGNOSTIQUES ET THÉRAPEUTIQUES
Thérapeutique [E02]Thérapeutique
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Polypharmacie
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Concept UI |
M0028787 |
Preferred term | Polypharmacie |
Entry term(s) |
Polymédication |
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