In the course of a day on the hospital floor, she saw about a dozen patients with multiple medical problems and complex medication regimes.
Elderly patients commonly have multiple medical problems and use medications to deal with these.
All these factors make this an ideal drug for use in the elderly and it appears that the risk of adverse events is minimal even in those with multiple medical problems and concomitant medication use.
There were three visits coded as gout-related visits in databases that did not have medical record documentation as related to gout: one visit each to discuss blood pressure medication, regular follow-up for multiple medical problems, and for increased blood sugar.
Many patients undergoing sleep studies have multiple medical problems and often are taking many medications.
All the factors influence the potential inability of the older patient to tolerate certain intensive forms of therapy must be considered and particularly multiple medical problems affect older population and use medications to manage them.
It is also acknowledged that older persons take more medications and are more likely to have multiple medical problems, and this increases the risk of drug-drug and drug-disease interactions (Cusack 2004).
Clinical drug trials often exclude older patients because of multiple medical problems, comorbidities or co-existing non HIV-related medication regimens [ 29].
What about my aunt who had multiple medical problems?
But what to do about complex patients with multiple medical problems?
As you get older and you have multiple medical problems, you see multiple specialists.
