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
While we were out – catching up
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While we were out – catching up
Wednesday 17 January 2024, 03:57 PM

News didn’t stop when we left the office on 14 December [Image: Kiran Ck on Unsplash]
Summer brings long, lazy days for many, but there’s still news to be found. As we left the office on 14 December, media releases continued arriving in our inboxes. Editor Barbara Fountain trawls through the offerings to find the news happening while we were out
As we were signing off on 14 December, the annual New Zealand Health Survey landed. Reporter Fiona Cassie took a look and found a key finding: a signi
Kia ora and welcome to New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa
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