Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The practice of prescribing multiple medications for an individual patient, especially excessively, for a single disease.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The prescribeing of too many medicines, especially in one prescription.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act or practice of prescribing too many medicines.
- noun A prescription made up of many medicines or ingredients.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun medicine The use of multiple
drugs in a singleprescription - noun medicine The use of multiple drugs to treat multiple concurrent
disorders in the same patient; especially the indiscriminate prescription of many drugs to elderly patients
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Examples
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"The real message is doctors who care for older patients need to spend a lot of time looking at medications and avoiding what we call polypharmacy which means too many medications," says Dr. Pfohl.
unknown title 2009
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Even though the serious problems with polypharmacy are known and expected, polypharmacy is growing in mental health care, not decreasing.
Homeopathy: A Healthier Way to Treat Depression? Dana Ullman 2010
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Even though the serious problems with polypharmacy are known and expected, polypharmacy is growing in mental health care, not decreasing.
Dana Ullman: Homeopathy: A Healthier Way to Treat Depression? Dana Ullman 2010
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This is called polypharmacy, which is the administration of excessive medications, and Holland said it's one of the leading causes of drug overdoses in the country.
FOXNews.com 2009
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In fact, many of the new blockbuster diseases from adult ADHD and RA to fibromyalgia are treated with new drugs piled on top of existing ones that aren't working, a Pharma contrivance called polypharmacy.
Martha Rosenberg: 7 Diseases Big Pharma Hopes You Get in 2012 Martha Rosenberg 2011
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In fact, many of the new blockbuster diseases from adult ADHD and RA to fibromyalgia are treated with new drugs piled on top of existing ones that aren't working, a Pharma contrivance called polypharmacy.
Martha Rosenberg: 7 Diseases Big Pharma Hopes You Get in 2012 Martha Rosenberg 2011
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In fact, many of the new blockbuster diseases from adult ADHD and RA to fibromyalgia are treated with new drugs piled on top of existing ones that aren't working, a Pharma contrivance called polypharmacy.
Martha Rosenberg: 7 Diseases Big Pharma Hopes You Get in 2012 Martha Rosenberg 2011
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In fact, many of the new blockbuster diseases from adult ADHD and RA to fibromyalgia are treated with new drugs piled on top of existing ones that aren't working, a Pharma contrivance called polypharmacy.
Martha Rosenberg: 7 Diseases Big Pharma Hopes You Get in 2012 Martha Rosenberg 2011
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Not everyone agreed about multidrug combinations commonly called polypharmacy either.
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Not everyone agreed about multidrug combinations commonly called polypharmacy either.
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