Keyword

polypharmacy

Description: The concurrent use of multiple medications, studied in healthcare in relation to treatment complexity, medication risks, and patient outcomes.

Primary topic: Pharmaceutical Practices and Patient Outcomes (36%)

Wikidata ID: wiki/Q1895998

OpenAlex ID: keywords/polypharmacy

Early Identification of Refractory Epilepsy

2000 · Patrick Kwan, Martin J. Brodie · New England Journal of Medicine · 5,201

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What is polypharmacy? A systematic review of definitions

2017 · Nashwa Masnoon, Sepehr Shakib, et al. · BMC Geriatrics · 3,299

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American Geriatrics Society 2019 Updated AGS Beers Criteria® for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use in Older Adults

2019 · By the 2019 American Geriatrics Society Beers Criteria® Update Expert Panel · Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 3,153

A Multifactorial Intervention to Reduce the Risk of Falling among Elderly People Living in the Community

1994 · Mary E. Tinetti, Dorothy I. Baker, et al. · New England Journal of Medicine · 2,147

Clinical consequences of polypharmacy in elderly

2013 · Robert L Maher, Joseph Hanlon, et al. · Expert Opinion on Drug Safety · 1,958

Risk factors for falls among older adults: A review of the literature

2013 · Anne Felicia Ambrose, Geet Paul, et al. · Maturitas · 1,891

Recent Patterns of Medication Use in the Ambulatory Adult Population of the United States

2002 · David W. Kaufman, Judith P. Kelly, et al. · JAMA · 1,847

Preventing Falls in Elderly Persons

2003 · Mary E. Tinetti · New England Journal of Medicine · 1,667

Treatment Outcomes in Patients With Newly Diagnosed Epilepsy Treated With Established and New Antiepileptic Drugs

2017 · Zhibin Chen, Martin J. Brodie, et al. · JAMA Neurology · 1,516

STOPP (Screening Tool of Older Persons Prescriptions) and START (Screening Tool to Alert doctors to Right Treatment). Consensus validation

2008 · P. Gallagher, C. Ryan, et al. · International Journal of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics · 1,507

Modeling polypharmacy side effects with graph convolutional networks

2018 · Marinka Zitnik, Monica Agrawal, et al. · Bioinformatics · 1,491

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Adverse Drug Events in Ambulatory Care

2003 · Tejal K. Gandhi, Saul N. Weingart, et al. · New England Journal of Medicine · 1,371

Precipitating Factors for Delirium in Hospitalized Elderly Persons

1996 · Sharon K. Inouye · JAMA · 1,364

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The Diagnosis and Management of Mild Cognitive Impairment

2014 · Kenneth M. Langa, Deborah A. Levine · JAMA · 1,328

Meta-analysis of the Impact of 9 Medication Classes on Falls in Elderly Persons

2009 · John C. Woolcott · Archives of Internal Medicine · 1,322

Development and validation of an electronic frailty index using routine primary care electronic health record data

2016 · Andrew Clegg, Chris Bates, et al. · Age and Ageing · 1,305

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Polypharmacy in elderly patients

2007 · Emily R. Hajjar, Angela C. Cafiero, et al. · The American journal of geriatric pharmacotherapy · 1,273

Trends in Prescription Drug Use Among Adults in the United States From 1999-2012

2015 · Elizabeth D. Kantor, Colin D. Rehm, et al. · JAMA · 1,217

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Explicit Criteria for Determining Inappropriate Medication Use in Nursing Home Residents

1991 · Mark H. Beers · Archives of Internal Medicine · 1,201

Polypharmacy cutoff and outcomes: five or more medicines were used to identify community-dwelling older men at risk of different adverse outcomes

2012 · Danijela Gnjidic, Sarah N. Hilmer, et al. · Journal of Clinical Epidemiology · 1,179

Drugs and Falls in Older People: A Systematic Review and Meta‐analysis: I. Psychotropic Drugs

1999 · Rosanne M. Leipzig, Robert G. Cumming, et al. · Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 1,153

Cumulative Use of Strong Anticholinergics and Incident Dementia

2015 · Shelly L. Gray, Melissa L. Anderson, et al. · JAMA Internal Medicine · 1,105

Appropriate prescribing in elderly people: how well can it be measured and optimised?

2007 · Anne Spinewine, Kenneth E Schmader, et al. · The Lancet · 1,091

Fixed-Dose Combinations Improve Medication Compliance: A Meta-Analysis

2007 · Sripal Bangalore, Gayathri Kamalakkannan, et al. · The American Journal of Medicine · 1,072

Physical Frailty: ICFSR International Clinical Practice Guidelines for Identification and Management

2019 · E. Dent, J.E. Morley, et al. · The journal of nutrition health & aging · 1,051

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Works count: 83,180

Citation count: 800,400