Polypharmacy was associated with a nearly doubled increase in health care expenditures and a tripled increase in pharmacy expenditures among older patients with cardiovascular diseases (CVD).

William Osler, M.D. was a famous American physician who died 100 years ago. He is responsible for several famous sayings, many of which concern over-prescribing of medications. One is “The desire to ...

In patients with acute HF, polypharmacy is common and associated with multimorbidity and older age. Polypharmacy is common globally among patients with acute heart failure (HF) and is associated with ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . We often encounter patients taking multiple medications, which complicates choosing safe and effective ...

Some antipsychotic polypharmacy protocols may lower the risk for schizophrenia-related rehospitalization in adult patients more so than monotherapy, new research suggests. In a study of more than ...

Patients with NSCLC taking five or more medications tended to have worse survival, highlighting the need for medication management, research showed. Older patients with advanced non-small cell lung ...

We created a clinic to identify patients at risk of polypharmacy and to alleviate problems associated with inappropriate drug use. Specific goals of the polypharmacy clinic included increasing ...

We conducted a retrospective cohort study of women with incident, invasive breast cancer initiating AET (tamoxifen, letrozole, anastrozole, exemestane) between 2009 and 2013 in the Truven Health ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Management of polypharmacy — the concurrent use of five or more medications — is a major challenge for ...

Polypharmacy which in simple term implies the concurrent use of multiple medications by a patient, is a growing concern, particularly among the elderly. As age grows, so do the number of ailments; ...

We conducted a retrospective cohort study of women with incident, invasive breast cancer initiating AET (tamoxifen, letrozole, anastrozole, exemestane) between 2009 and 2013 in the Truven Health ...