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What is Polypharmacy

Handbook of Research on ICTs and Management Systems for Improving Efficiency in Healthcare and Social Care
The permanent, frequent use of more than five drugs by a single person.
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Introducing the COrETeSt Feasibility Analysis in Medical Informatics: A Case Study of a Decision-Support Knowledge System in the Dutch Primary Care Sector
Michiel C. Meulendijk (Utrecht University, The Netherlands), Clara Drenth-van Maanen (Utrecht University, The Netherlands), Paul Jansen (Utrecht University, The Netherlands), Sjaak Brinkkemper (Utrecht University, The Netherlands), Mattijs Numans (Utrecht University, The Netherlands), and Marco Spruit (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-3990-4.ch056
Abstract
Although the conduction of feasibility analyses before executing comprehensive projects is often urged in literature, little standardization exists regarding actual approaches. In this chapter, the authors describe the practice of conducting a feasibility analysis of a decision-support knowledge platform in the Dutch primary care sector, and present recommendations for researchers and entrepreneurs performing similar projects accordingly. The research question, investigating how the feasibility of a decision-support knowledge platform in the primary care domain can be investigated, is answered by describing in detail the issues encountered during the process and included as COrETeSt-recommendations: the investigation of conceptual, organizational, economic, technological, and societal aspects comprises an extensive feasibility analysis in the primary care domain.
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Ambulatory Wellbeing: Perspectives on Senescence in Gerontology
Polypharmacy can be defined as the concomitant use of five or more medications per 24-hour period by any individual person.
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A Digital Health Perspective on Medication Use and Polypharmacy Management for Improving Healthcare Outcomes in Geriatric Patients
A practice of multiple medicines prescription (>5 drugs) for a patient due to their illnesses.
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Twin Contributors to the Physiology of Ambulatory Wellbeing and Falls Prevention in Ageing Populations: Functional Senescence and Abnormal Pathological Change
Polypharmacy can be defined as the concomitant use of five or more medications per 24-hour period by any individual person.
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Multimorbidity, Ageing, and Frailty: Processes of Senescence and the Pathologies of Progressive Functional Decline in Ambulation
Polypharmacy can be defined as the concomitant use of five or more medications per 24-hour period by any individual person.
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Safe Home Medicine Delivery
The simultaneous use of multiple medications.
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