Publication details
Polypragmazie nebo účelná farmakoterapie u seniorů?
| Title in English | Polypharmacy or effective pharmacotherapy for seniors? |
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| Year of publication | 2009 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Sborník XVII. Brněnské dny praktického lékařství „Praktický lékař a civilizační nemoci“, Brno, 9.-10.10.2009, s.30-33. |
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| Field | Other specializations of internal medicine |
| Keywords | old age - multi-morbidity - polypharmacy |
| Description | Although the two terms are substantively similar and are sometimes confused by the public and professionals, you can not declare etymologically identical. Polypharmacotherapy often justified and is useful in old age depends primarily polymorbidity simultaneously present. Although the individual diseases are quite rightly indicated and treated according to EBM (evidence based medicine), of which more than once threatened possible pharmacological interactions recede somewhat into the background. So they can be severe and difficult to detect. Polypharmacy is defined as a condition where the patient - in some cases unnecessarily - medicines used too much, too long or in excessive doses. About polypharmacy is spoken even if the patient is taking even one not strictly necessary medicine. To some extent, this term tends to indicate unsuitability incoordination and therapeutic procedures and measures. Polypharmacy may lead to an exponential increase in the risk of adverse effects and drug interactions (with 6 or more drugs, the risk of WHO particularly high). |