Exempel på polypharmacy

• The process is also an aid to managing polypharmacy, highlighting poor nutrition and recognizing social problems that may interfere with treatment.

• Multiple co-morbidities and polypharmacy are common in this group, emphasizing the importance of tailoring treatment t o t he individual patient.

• Even though polypharmacy may be unavoidable, appropriate prescribing practices can ensure the minimum necessary medications and avoid overlap of pharmacological effect.

• Inevitably, problems with polypharmacy are an issue in older patients, and problems are compounded with deteriorating renal function and impaired cardiovascular homeostatic-feedback mechanisms.

• Polypharmacy, self-medication and possibly non-compliance may generate or compound the problem of drug-associated diarrhoea in older persons.

• Polypharmacy should be considered an indicator of severe underlying disease.

• Polypharmacy should be avoided because of the high chance of side-effects and problems of compliance.

• First, polypharmacy is inadvertently introduced, increasing the risk of drug interactions.

• Furthermore, the clinical picture is also often complicated by increasing numbers of other medical conditions and by polypharmacy.

• Drug-induced tinnitus19 is important in the elderly, who are frequently subject to polypharmacy.

• Polypharmacy and falls in the middle age and elderly population.

• There are difficulties in recruiting and retaining elderly people in research protocols, and there are often many confounding co-mordibites21 and polypharmacy.

• A randomized controlled trial of medication review in patients receiving polypharmacy in general practice.

• This was thought to be due to multiple morbidity, polypharmacy, cognitive impairment and an increased tendency to fall.

• This socalled 'polypharmacy' or 'polydrug' 'misuse' or 'dependence' is a particular issue in older people who may well have physical or psychological comorbidity.