Recent Findings from Thomas Jefferson University Has Provided New Information about Managed Care (Can Managed Care Manage Polypharmacy?)

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Weekly News -- New research on Managed Care is the subject of a report. According to news reporting originating from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, by VerticalNews correspondents, research stated, "Polypharmacy has come to mean the inappropriate use of multiple medications."

Our news editors obtained a quote from the research from Thomas Jefferson University, "Polypharmacy can occur as a result of a range of situations, including the excessive application of clinical guidelines, lack of coordination among multiple prescribers, treating adverse drug events, misaligned medications across transitions of care, patient self-treatment, and inappropriate overtreatment. Polypharmacy is a problem because the benefits of a specific medication at the dose and frequency that an individual patient is taking are often outweighed by the costs."

According to the news editors, the research concluded: "These costs can be financial; however, they may place a greater burden when they lead to unrealized benefits or adverse clinical effects."

For more information on this research see: Can Managed Care Manage Polypharmacy? Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, 2017;33(2):241-255,CP2. Clinics in Geriatric Medicine can be contacted at: W B Saunders Co-Elsevier Inc, 1600 John F Kennedy Boulevard, Ste 1800, Philadelphia, PA 19103-2899, USA. (Elsevier - www.elsevier.com; Clinics in Geriatric Medicine - www.journals.elsevier.com/clinics-in-geriatric-medicine/)

The news editors report that additional information may be obtained by contacting R.G. Stefanacci, Thomas Jefferson University, Coll Populat Hlth, Philadelphia, PA 19107, United States.

Keywords for this news article include: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, North and Central America, Drugs and Therapies, Managed Care, Polypharmacy, Thomas Jefferson University.

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