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Medical Overuse
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-- See Also Diagnostic Errors


Incorrect diagnoses following clinical or technical diagnostic procedures
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-- See Also Drug Overdose


Accidental or deliberate use of a medication or street drug in excess of normal dosage
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-- See Also Inappropriate Prescribing


The practice of administering medications in a manner that poses more risk than benefit, particularly where safer alternatives exist
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-- See Also Polypharmacy


The use of multiple drugs administered to the same patient, most commonly seen in elderly patients. It includes also the administration of excessive medication. Since in the United States most drugs are dispensed as single-agent formulations, polypharmacy, though using many drugs administered to the same patient, must be differentiated from DRUG COMBINATIONS, single preparations containing two or more drugs as a fixed dose, and from DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION, two or more drugs administered separately for a combined effect. (From Segen, Dictionary of Modern Medicine, 1992)
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