Approaches to how medicines are chosen and combined over the course of an illness, including symptomatic and supportive treatment, combination therapy, salvage or rescue therapy, maintenance therapy, deprescribing and polypharmacy. An entry belongs here when its own source describes a way of planning or adjusting drug treatment rather than one drug. It excludes particular drug classes. Each member is a pharmacological therapy entry that the atlas covers as a subject in its own right, placed here on what its cited article says it is and how it is used, never on its name alone.
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Symptomatic treatment (Wikipedia)
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Symptomatic treatment, also called supportive care, supportive therapy, or palliative treatment, is any medical therapy of a disease that only affects its symptoms, not the underlying cause.
Combination therapy (Wikipedia)
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Combination therapy or polytherapy is therapy that uses more than one medication or modality.
Salvage therapy (Wikipedia)
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Salvage therapy, also known as rescue therapy, is a form of therapy given after an ailment does not respond to standard therapy.
Maintenance therapy (Wikipedia)
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Maintenance therapy is a medical therapy that is designed to help a primary treatment succeed.
Deprescribing (Wikipedia)
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Deprescribing is a process of tapering or stopping medications to achieve improved health outcomes by reducing exposure to medications that are potentially either harmful or no longer required.
Polypharmacy (Wikipedia)
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Polypharmacy (polypragmasia) is an umbrella term to describe the simultaneous use of multiple medicines by a patient for their conditions.
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