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[Geriatric syndromes and polypharmacy: to prescribe or to proscribe that is the question]
1Service de gériatrie du Valais romand, Hôpital du Valais, 1920 Martigny.
Abstract:
How to apply treatment recommendations from various knowledgeable specialist societies concerning the very complex patient? Within a population weakened by the cumulative effect of comorbidities, loss of autonomy aggravated by geriatric syndromes and biological changes linked to aging which interact with the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of drugs, there is fertile soil for the advent of adverse conditions linked to simultaneously prescribing multiple treatments. Our aim is to analyze various clinical reasoning tools permitting an appropriate drug prescription while considering the state of health, life expectancy and time to benefit with the aim of reducing iatrogenesis.
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