What's the difference between polypharmacy and prescription?
Polypharmacy
Definition:
(n.) The act or practice of prescribing too many medicines.
(n.) A prescription made up of many medicines or ingredients.
Example Sentences:
(1) The concept of "polypharmacy", a pejorative and meaningless term, nevertheless gave rise to useful surveys on combined drug use, to methods of monitoring and controlling multiple drug use, and to a small number of studies which imply that a few psychoactive drug-drug combinations are rational.
(2) Methods to prevent polypharmacy and drug misuse have not been well studied.
(3) Dietary folate intake was significantly reduced in all the patient groups compared with controls (p less than 0.001 for the carbamazepine and phenytoin groups, p less than 0.01 for the polypharmacy and sodium valproate groups); a significant correlation between red cell folate levels and dietary folate was not established.
(4) Although drugs have contributed to the well-being of many older persons, some elderly individuals are at risk due to polypharmacy and age-related factors.
(5) In the unit where drug consultation was provided, there was a significnat reduction in extended antiparkinsonian agent use (p less than 0.001), multiple daily dosage (p less than 0.001), inappropriate anxiolytic use (p less than 0.01), polypharmacy (p less than 0.001) and too rapid change in medication (p less than 0.01).
(6) The literature is reviewed with respect to the incidence, causes and end-results of polypharmacy.
(7) Psychotropic drug use, psychotropic polypharmacy, and the repeat prescribing of these drugs were strongly associated with repeated overdosage and, under certain circumstances, with personality disorder, alcohol or drug abuse, unemployment, and conflict with the law.
(8) Symptoms of disease change with advancing age and diagnosis becomes difficult due to atypical and insidious symptomatology while the common occurrence of multiple pathology can unfortunately encourage polypharmacy.
(9) Overall, we observed the use of NL in all diagnostic categories and the frequent use of polypharmacy in patients treated with NL.
(10) In new referrals, there is considerable potential for monotherapy, and the avoidance of polypharmacy and chronic toxicity.
(11) Hence, one could argue polypharmacy has become the rule rather than the exception in cancer chemotherapy.
(12) Treatment can be complicated by the polypharmacy that is prevalent among older adults and by age-related physiologic changes.
(13) Polypharmacy decreased, and the elderly remained less medicated than adults.
(14) Altered drug metabolism, polypharmacy, multiple diseases, and errors in self-medication are all factors seen in the elderly which increase the risk for side effects from antirheumatic drug therapy.
(15) No single AED used as monotherapy correlated with increased risk of malformations, but polypharmacy with phenobarbital and phenytoin seemed to represent a risk factor.
(16) Patients with previous injuries, balance disturbances, and polypharmacy were at high risk, and intrinsic factors such as dizziness and impaired balance proved to be more significant as direct causes for the occurrence of accidents than environmental factors.
(17) Non-prescription drugs were noted in 97.2% of prescriptions in the polypharmacy group and 58.0% of prescriptions in the comparison group, representing 34.7% and 27.3% of all items, respectively.
(18) Prescription was inappropriate in 74.3% of cases and the prescribers indulged in polypharmacy, unnecessary and extravagant prescribing of drugs in suboptimal dosage.
(19) We compared pattern-reversal visual and brainstem auditory evoked potentials in normal controls, patients on monotherapy, and patients taking polypharmacy.
(20) Such polypharmacy is responsible for the development of suprainfections, some of which are caused by organisms very difficult to eradicate.
Prescription
Definition:
(n.) The act of prescribing, directing, or dictating; direction; precept; also, that which is prescribed.
(n.) A direction of a remedy or of remedies for a disease, and the manner of using them; a medical recipe; also, a prescribed remedy.
(n.) A prescribing for title; the claim of title to a thing by virtue immemorial use and enjoyment; the right or title acquired by possession had during the time and in the manner fixed by law.
Example Sentences:
(1) Treatment termination due to lack of efficacy or combined insufficient therapeutic response and toxicity proved to be influenced by the initial disease activity and by the rank order of prescription.
(2) Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is also seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, recently proposed a bill that would ease the financial burden of prescription drugs on elderly Americans by allowing Medicare, the national social health insurance program, to negotiate with the pharmaceutical companies to keep prices down.
(3) Altogether, 29% of the drivers had evidence of alcohol, marijuana, cocaine, prescription or nonprescription stimulants, or some combination of these, in either blood or urine.
(4) Using the results of a first evaluation made in 1989, a series of recommendations were made to reduce the prescription of drugs with a low intrinsic value (LIV).
(5) They are about to use a newer version to write prescriptions and office visit notes and to find general medical and patient-specific information.
(6) Of these 1224 prescriptions, 82.8% were for veterinary preparations, 6.6% were for human preparations and 10.6% were for other drugs.
(7) As Kuwait is one of the countries where the total consumption of antibiotics is very high as compared to most of the western countries, we are inclined to assume that this generous policy for the prescription of especially ampicillin and other broad spectrum antibiotics in uncomplicated infections has generated this serious consequence.
(8) An analysis of my own practice prescriptions showed that only 31% were repeat prescriptions, and this concurs with national figures.
(9) She also claimed Salazar tried to get her to take prescription thyroid medicine to lose weight after the birth of her son.
(10) Despite the small number of patients studied, these results suggest the importance of limiting the prescription of 25 OH D3 to children suffering from renal osteodystrophy only after having assessed unequivocally an osteomalacic component by histodynamical criteria.
(11) When that prescription was gone, he said he was still in pain, so the doctor wrote a second prescription.
(12) Results indicate that special instruction was responsible for improved understanding of the underlying disease and also improved compliance with physicians' prescriptions.
(13) The recognition that all minor tranquillizers carry the risk of dependence has had a significant impact in their prescription over the years.
(14) The physician's suggestions have significant impact on elderly patients, and a social prescription often enhances a medical regimen.
(15) In our countries, a good prescription of analysis would help to reduce hospital costs without modifying the efficiency of the diagnosis approach.
(16) Although prostheses are not anatomical avatars, careful appliance prescription and training, coordinated with the child's growth and developmental changes, can optimize the benefits the child derives from the prosthesis.
(17) These may be reduced partly by greater care in the prescription and execution of this treatment, but it is impossible to completely avoid them; it is therefore desirable in certain cases to avoid systematic prophylactic treatment by using other first line methods such as early mobilisation, elastic contention, hemodilution or indeed in certain cases the insertion of a vena cava filter.
(18) The results suggest that compliance in using the initial prescription for sublingual nitroglycerin can be improved when the physician supervises the first dose.
(19) It was concluded that a single spectrum could validly be used to represent both male and female speech in the frequency region important for hearing aid gain prescriptions: 250 Hz through 6300 Hz.
(20) Chinese drugs constitute a unique medicinal system that features the following three subsystems: subsystem of medicinal substances consisting of traditional theories such as "four properties and five tastes of drugs" and "the principal, adjuvant, auxiliary and conduct ingredients in a prescription' , etc; subsystem of pharmacological actions comprising the theory of "ascending, descending, floating and sinking", etc; Subsystem of human body's functions incorporating the theory of "drugs to act on the channels".