For older people and frail people, the long-term benefit of medicines reduces and the potential for harm from adverse effects increases. When the benefit–risk balance changes in this way, medicine review and optimisation are important to simplify the therapeutic regimen, reduce inappropriate medicines and minimise risks. In this article, pharmacist prescriber Linda Bryant uses two case studies to illustrate important considerations during medicine reviews
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Long COVID harms will land with ACC
Tuesday 7 June 2022, 11:46 AM

COVID-19 causes long-term illness in perhaps 10 per cent of cases [Image: Cemile Bingol on iStock]
This is an early online publication of a story due to appear in the June 8 print issue
COVID is a nasty, evolving disease that as a virus has got wide-ranging effects
Healthcare workers are likely to claim compensation from ACC for
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