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
By request: Patient attitudes don't fly at the supermarket
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By request: Patient attitudes don't fly at the supermarket
Wednesday 6 June 2018, 04:43 PM

By request, we reprint a perenially popular Dr Mysterio column from July 2009
Shell-shocked and grumpy after another day in the trenches, I thought I'd go and see what my local supermarket would do if I treated them the way my p
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