polypharmacy
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of polypharmacy
Example Sentences
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She also found that rates of polypharmacy, or when an individual takes five or more drugs at the same time, have risen to alarming levels.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2023
What’s more, Dr. Erickson said it’s common for some people — especially those with intellectual and developmental disabilities — to have other medical conditions that require five or more prescriptions, a scenario known as polypharmacy.
From New York Times ● Sep. 21, 2021
Among their results found rising rates of use of common medications and increase rates of polypharmacy.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 13, 2018
The work is part of a provocative and growing body of research that documents how polypharmacy — the use of multiple prescription drugs at the same time — has risen in the United States.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 12, 2018
The commentary triumphantly made by this lover of polypharmacy in the case in which this medicine was administered, runs thus:—"These things being exactly performed, this noble gentleman was cured."
From Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles by Daniel Hack Tuke
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