Talk:Overmedication

Elderly

I went looking for sources related to overmedication and found that many google results are focusing on this phenomenom in elderly people. When this article is rewritten, this should be given a substantial section, rather than the current focus, which appears to be pediatric psychotropics. Natureium (talk) 02:14, 10 October 2018 (UTC)

This article does not address many marginalized populations that overmedication affects, especially seniors. This section should be just as important as the paediatrics section, as seniors are not prioritized as much when talking about topics like this.Sahrishmasood (talk) 23:27, 3 October 2020 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: Foundations II

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 1 June 2024 and 17 August 2024. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Alaynadornton, Jelizarragaoregel, Aedirimuni, AmalEgeh (article contribs). Peer reviewers: Erindoan, Jdo pharmd, Adhillon4, Christopher Dimitropoulos.

— Assignment last updated by Health Economics and Policy (talk) 19:31, 26 July 2024 (UTC)

Foundations 2 editing plan/goals

Our goals are to go through each section (introduction, special populations, OTC, overprescription) and ensure that there is cohesion, comprehension, and terminology is in lay language. Our team split the article into different sections to focus on, we want to ensure there is more information regarding OTC overprescription and provide necessary examples to support this. We also aim to read through the article and ensure that 'overmedication' is defined correctly as there are many terms to interchange with it (e.g. overmedication, overprescription, medication misuse, etc). Our goal is also to add more sources and studies with trial data to the article to aid in reliability. There are many separation subsections of our article, to make the article proper flow we will add 'geriatrics' and 'pediatrics' into a special population category for example.

Below is an example of how we want our article page to look and the content we will add: Sections

Introduction

Special populations

• Geriatrics
• Peds

OTC

Overprescription

• Narcotics
• Antibiotics

AmalEgeh (talk) 22:19, 23 July 2024 (UTC)

Peer Reviews from Perioral Dermatitis Group

I believe the group's efforts to substantially improve Wikipedia does meet the criteria for Wikipedia's "Guiding Framework" as the group includes details on different medications that can cause harm and how they do so if used excessively. For example, there is extra details on how acetaminophen, dextromethorphan, codeine, and diphenhyramine, all of which are commonly used OTCs, can cause harm in different manners.

The group did meet their goal for improvement as it was mentioned in their "Talk" page, they wanted to include information on how overmedication can impact the geriatrics and pediatrics population. The group did a good job in elaborating how these two different age populations can be differently impacted from overmedication and the different reasons behind how this issue can occur. Furthermore, the group also mentioned in their plan they wanted to include an opioids and antibiotics section, which they have successfully done as they talk about how these classes of medications contribute to overmedication to the general population.

I believe the article includes a neutral point of view as the group mentions how certain types of medications can result in overdosing without pinpointing a specific group, keeping the information general for the public to read.Jdo pharmd (talk) 22:40, 29 July 2024 (UTC)

This group's edits do improve the article as described by the guiding framework. They have details to explain particular drugs. They go in depth to create more accuracy and have some more updated citations for keep the information relevant to today.

This group's goals were to have particular sections added, in particular geriatrics, peds, narcotics, and antibiotics. They wanted to include material within these categories to improve the page and they have done a good job at that so far. They use lay laugnage and a variety of different sources within these sections to add helpful information. I also appreciate that the sections are not unnecessarily long as that can become overwhelming to readers.

The points include verifiable cited secondary sources that are freely available. For example, the main source used within the dextromethorphan section is easy to click. It takes me to pubmed where the article looks at a variety of published clinical trails. Also, it is free to read as the pdf is available through pubmed. This is true for some other citations that I clicked and verified as well in the acetaminophen. -- Adhillon4 (talk) 23:32, 29 July 2024 (UTC)

The group did well in making the changes necessary for this article. Everything information added and information changed are all relevant to the article. There was nothing distracting in the article. The article is neutral. The group provided non-biased information that does not completely lean towards one position over another. The cites comes from appropriate and reliable resources. They are from neutral sources nor are they from a bias source. There may be few citations that are not within 5 to 10 years. Overall, the group did well in cleaning up the article and fixing it up to make it more informative and understanding for other audience to read it if they were to come cross this article. Erindoan (talk) 00:29, 31 July 2024 (UTC)