Adverse Drug Reactions Mimicking Disease

Abstract

Abstract. Advancing age is associated with an increased prevalence of illness, often resulting in the requirement for multiple medications, placing the older person at increased risk of adverse drug reactions (ADRs). Rather than simply attributing new signs and symptoms to progression of an old disease or the development of a new illness, the possibility that they are consequences of existing drug therapy should be considered. We present a case where symptoms associated with ADRs mimicked age‐related diseases. Nursing home admission was avoided through recognition of the problem, and withdrawal of the offending medications.

Patient and provider perspectives on the development and resolution of prescribing cascades: a qualitative study

“…To raise awareness about risks of prescribing cascades, case reports, examples and approaches to prevent, detect and reverse them have been published [8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18]. A 2018 scoping review describes education and illustrative case examples aimed at prevention and detection, approaches to using health administrative data and social media to help detect prescribing cascades and the use of medication reviews and deprescribing to reverse them [12].…”