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
Life is not to be feared, just understood
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Life is not to be feared, just understood
Friday 6 July 2018, 09:37 AM
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“Nothing in life is to be feared; it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
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