Combination therapy or polytherapy is the use of more than one medication or other therapy. In contrast, monotherapy is any therapy which is taken by itself.
Most often, these terms refer to the simultaneous administration of two or more medications to treat a single disease. However, the expression is also used when other types of therapy are used at the same time, such as the combination of medications and talk therapy to treat depression.
Combination therapy may be achieved by giving separate drugs, or, where available, by giving combination drugs, which are dosage forms that contain more than one active ingredient.
Polypharmacy is the use of multiple medications to treat multiple, separate diseases.
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