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
Sitting in my bubble while COVID-19 tests nurses’ resilience
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Sitting in my bubble while COVID-19 tests nurses’ resilience
Friday 17 April 2020, 11:13 AM

A nurse measures the body temperature of an outpatient at Hubei TCM Hospital [photo: China News Service]
An international chat group keeps Barbara Docherty informed of the desperate situation some British and American nurses find themselves on the front line
Lockdown week three. How am I doing, I ask myself. Well, my grey hair is more obvious at the roots. I seem to be snacking more. I have never watched
Kia ora and welcome to New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa
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