Polypragmatic
The polypharmacy ( Greek πολυπραγμασία , ancient Greek spoken polypragmasía , "overactivity") refers to the medicine , the meaning and concept-free diagnosis and treatment with many drugs and medicines and other therapeutic measures. This increases the risk of exchange and side effects .
According to the World Health Organization , the risk of adverse reactions and side effects increases exponentially from around six different drugs per patient . This is particularly common in the elderly.
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Entry on polypragmasy in Flexikon , a wiki from DocCheck , accessed on November 27, 2015.
- ↑ Too many drugs make seniors sick ( memento of the original from August 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
