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Polypharmacotherapy, specific of geriatrics and geriatric pharmacotherapy - GDKSF15
Title: Polyfarmakoterapie, specifika geriatrie a geriatrické farmakoterapie
Guaranteed by: Department of Social and Clinical Pharmacy (16-16220)
Faculty: Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec Králové
Actual: from 2023
Semester: both
Points: 0
E-Credits: 0
Examination process:
Hours per week, examination: 0/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity: winter:unknown / unknown (unknown)
summer:unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Additional information: http://www.dl1.cuni.cz
Note: course is intended for doctoral students only
enabled for web enrollment
you can enroll for the course in winter and in summer semester
Guarantor: doc. PharmDr. Daniela Fialová, Ph.D.
Annotation -
Last update: doc. PharmDr. Daniela Fialová, Ph.D. (20.09.2023)
Polypharmacotherapy in the old age and risks of multiple drug regimens belong to significant clinical phenomena that require specific postgraduate knowledge and skills in the field of clinical pharmacy in geriatrics. The risks and management of polypharmacy have a high impact on the quality of healthcare and healthcare systems. With the ageing of the world population and raising prevalence of polymorbidity, the importance of knowledge and skills regarding clinical principles of the individualization of combined drug regimens in older patients and management of polypharmacy is increasing. Management of polypharmacy (which is the most frequent phenomena in geriatric patients and particularly in this cohort it contributes to negative outcomes) includes detail knowledge of clinical pharmacy and geriatrics for diagnostics and solution of specific problems. And, knowledge on the prevalence, risk factors and negative outcomes of polypharmacy as well. Therefore, this postgraduate subject is primarily established as a clinical subject that extend the postgraduate knowledge of students in the evaluation and individualization of combined drug regimens with the aim to reduce the risky polypharmacotherapy in older patients (1). It extends the postgraduate knowledge and skills of students necessary for qualified evaluation of benefit and risks of combined drug regimens in geriatric patients with the effort to reduce negative outcomes of polypharmacotherapy. Polyfarmacotherapy is the most frequent phenomenon in geriatric patients and in geriatrics has a lot of specific features. For this reason this subject will also emphasize the importance of specific knowledge of geriatrics (2)- specific features of geriatric pharmacotherapy (selection and individualization of drug regimens in the old age) and how to respect geriatric principles in older users of combined drug regimes. At the final block of knowledge (3), the subject will include the importance of evidence from epidemiological studies on positive and negative outcomes of reducing polypharmacotherapy in older adults, where positive outputs were documented only if clinical specialists skilled in geriatrics interveening in polypharmacy regimens were involved and specific geriatric approaches and principles respected. The postgraduate subject will help to generate postgraduate absolvents experienced in major clinical and epidemiological aspects of polypharmacotherapy in geriatric patients having important expertise for future healthcare systems that already face to extensive increase in proportion of geriatric patients and overall increase in the prevalence of polypharmacotherapy.
Course completion requirements -
Last update: doc. PharmDr. Daniela Fialová, Ph.D. (20.09.2023)

The postgraduate subject require 100% participation of students on 10 postgraduate lectures/modules, stated in the subject sylabus. The student is oblidged at the end of this subject to work out one complex patient case regarding a geriatric patient using polypharmacy from the point of view of geriatric risks and clinical pharmacy in geriatrics. This patient case will be discussed during the examination. 

The postgraduate subject is finalized by the oral examination (2 questions + geriatric patient case with polypharmacy) with the presence of 3 members of the examining committee- one guarant of the committee and two members.

Student have to oral pass examination by responding to 2 selected fields (see bellow):

1/ Polypharmacotherapy- causes, risk factors, prevalence on national and international level, negative outcomes

2/ Geriatric syndromes I. - causes, risk factors, diagnostics, complications, relationship to polypharmacotherapy

3/ Geriatric syndromes II. - causes, risk factors, diagnostics, complications, relationship to polypharmacotherapy

4/ Specific features of drug-related geriatric syndromes, geriatric drug-disease interactions

5/ Theory of combined drug regimens and importance of pharmacokinetic (particularly metabolic) a farmacodynamic interactions for estimation of clinically-significant risks of pharmacotherapy

6/ Specific features of low-dose drug regimens in the old age- importance for the management of polypharmacotherapy

7/ Prescribing cascades and other risk factors leading to multiple drug regimens- evidence from epidemiological studies

8/ Classification systems and expert explicite criteria of potentially inappropriate medications in the old age (PIMs)

9/ Important national and European initiatives and projects targeted to reduction of risky polypharmacotherapy in the old age

10/ Ageing of the world population, prolongation of life-expectancy, phenomenon of risky polypharmacotherapy and possiblities for its reduction

Literature -
Last update: doc. PharmDr. Daniela Fialová, Ph.D. (20.09.2023)

Obligatory:

  • Lisa C. Hutchison, Rebecca B. Sleeper. Fundamentals of Geriatric Pharmacotherapy (2nd Edition) . U.S.A.Census Bureau News.: U.S. ASHP, 2009, 545 s. ISBN 978-1585284351 .
  • Springhouse Publishing (Author),‎ Springhouse (Author) . Handbook of Geriatric Drug Therapy (1st Edition). : S. Karger; 1 edition (August 13, 1974), 2000, 1000 pp s. ISBN ISBN-13: 978-0874349.

Syllabus -
Last update: doc. PharmDr. Daniela Fialová, Ph.D. (20.09.2023)

Sylabus of the subject (modules of lectures which serves also as questions for postgraduate examination)

Modul I:- Polypharmacotherapy- causes, risk factors, prevalence on national and international level, negative outcomes

Modul II.- Geriatric syndromes I. - causes, risk factors, diagnostics, complications, relationship to polypharmacotherapy

Modul III.- Geriatric syndromes II. - causes, risk factors, diagnostics, complications, relationship to polypharmacotherapy

Modul IV.- Specific features of druh-related geriatric syndromes, geriatric drug-disease interactions

Modul V.- Theory of combined drug regimens and importance of pharmacokinetic (particularly metabolic) a farmacodynamic interactions for estimation of clinically-significant risks of pharmacotherapy

Modul VI. Specif features of low-dose drug regimens in the old age, importance for the management of polypharmacotherapy

Modul VII.- Prescribing cascades and other risk factors leading to multiple drug regimens- evidence from epidemiological studies

Modul VIII.-Classification systems and expert explicite criteria of potentially inappropriate medicatsions in the old age (PIMs)

Modul IX.- Important national and European initiatives and projects targeted to reduction of risky polypharmacotherapy in the old age

Modul X.- Ageing of the world population, prolongation of life-expectancy, phenomenon of risky polypharmacotherapy and possiblities of reduction of risky polypharmacotherapy

Entry requirements -
Last update: doc. PharmDr. Daniela Fialová, Ph.D. (20.09.2023)

The subject is appropriate for subcription to those postgraduate students that absolved the subject Clinical pharmacy during pregraduate studies and would like to extend their knowledge and skills during postgraduate studies in Clinical pharmacy in geriatrics and in Management of polypharmacy in geritric patients.

Learning resources -
Last update: doc. PharmDr. Daniela Fialová, Ph.D. (20.09.2023)

Study literature recommended by guarant of the subject and actually published scientific papers. 

Teaching methods -
Last update: doc. PharmDr. Daniela Fialová, Ph.D. (20.09.2023)

Subject is tought with the method of educational modules, individual dates of lectures/modules must be clarified in correspondence with the guarant of the subject- Fialová Daniela, PharmD, PhD (daniela.fialova@faf.cuni.cz) by postgraduate students that subscribed for the subject.

 

Teachers in the subject:

Guarant of the subject_ Fialová Daniela, PharmD, Ph.D. (member of the Board for Postgraduate Studies in Social and Clinical pharmacy, clinical pharmacist in geriatrics, Head of the University Educational Centre in Clinical Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy)

Other teachers:

Božena Jurašková, M.D., Ph.D. (externist, geriatrician Faculty Teaching Hospital, Hradec Králové

 
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