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
Who’s healthy? Lessons from Te Matatini
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Who’s healthy? Lessons from Te Matatini
Thursday 28 February 2019, 02:00 PM
Scenes from Te Matatini ki te Ao 2019, held last weekend in Wellington [photo: YouTube]
Could it be that small-scale efforts to improve Māori health are paying off but results are not being captured in the official stats? Barbara Docherty writes
Quietly working away, often without fanfare, are many groups set up by Māori in different, often small, geographical areas of New Zealand to change ea
Kia ora and welcome to New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa
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