Psychiatr. praxi. 2013;14(3):112-115
Risks of polypharmacy in psychiatry
- Psychiatrická nemocnice Bohnice, Praha
The pharmacological treatment in old age has its specifics and the polypharmacy belongs among the most common problematic situations
in gerontopsychiatric patients. A number of older patients are experiencing the chaining of the multiple somatic and psychological
disorders which creates a need of greater use of pharmacotherapy. Moreover, in old age, adverse drug effects and drug interactions
are more frequent than in the younger population, the most endangered group are just the polymorbid old patients. Moreover, there
is known a number of drugs that have the ability to induce the secondary psychiatric symptomatology within their side effects. Such
conditions need to be actively searched for and it is necessary to prevent them. The safe and effective pharmacotherapy belongs to the
one of the important indicators of the quality of health care in old age.
Keywords: polypharmacy, drug interactions, averse reactions, polymorbidity
Published: August 7, 2013 Show citation
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