TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fatma Gamil Saeed Ahmed
AU  - Alia Abdelfattah Salah , 
AU  - Heba Galal Elnahass , 
AU  - Marwa Mustafa Saeed , 
TI  - The relation of poly-pharmacy and the geriatric syndrome / 
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Cairo : 
PB  - Fatma Gamil Saeed Ahmed , 
KW  - Comprehensive geriatric assessment
KW  - Geriatric syndrome
KW  - Polypharmacy
N1  - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Family Medicine; Issued also as CD
N2  - Back ground: Geriatric syndrome, is a unique features of common health conditions in the elderly. such as delirium, falls and ureinary incontinence) it's highly prevalent, multifactorial, and associated with substantial morbidity and poor outcomes. Objectives: To determine the relation of polypharmacy and the geriatric syndrome. Methodology: This is a case-control study conducted on 150 elderly, attending Alkasr Elainy clinic. The participants in this study was over the age of sixty-five and were divided into two group, the case group(100 individuals) who used to take more than 5 different medicines and the controls (50 individuals) who used to take less than 5 different drugs. CGA was done to all participants. The criteria of inclusions and exclusions were assessed. Results: there were significant difference between the two group regarding vision, hearing, urinary incontinence, depression, cognition, daily activity, sleep, risk of fall, hospital stay and nutrition. Conclusion: Polypharmacy is risk factor of geriatric syndrome
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