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
A parting gift
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A parting gift
Wednesday 18 April 2018, 06:29 AM

The coronavirus (co-v) under the microscope
A patient's parting gift proves socially inopportune for retiring Blenheim GP Jim Vause
Who gave me the parting gift, a something to remember 32 years of consulting in Redwoodtown? That it was probably a coronavirus is fitting, for other
Kia ora and welcome to New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa
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