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
The ABC of health information privacy in under one hour
Wednesday 23 May 2018, 04:00 AM

The Health ABC module tells you the basics of protecting individual privacy
PRIVACY MATTERS
Over the past few years, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner has launched new online training modules around Privacy Week in early May. This year is no exception, says communications adviser Sam Grover
The latest training module, Health ABC, aims to make privacy issues easy for anyone who works with health information. Health ABC complements Health 1
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