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pharmacology: polypharmacy


This pejorative term applies to use of excessive numbers of different drugs to treat a patient with one or more conditions. Disadvantages of this approach include increased risk of drug interactions, increase in adverse effects, and obscuring of therapeutic response.

Also: combination pharmacotherapy



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