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
Cloud-based thinking on prostate guidance
Wednesday 9 May 2018, 06:00 AM

Blenheim GP Jim Vause reflects on the efforts of the prostate taskforce to find something useful to share with GPs
GPs will still carry on as we always have, doing what we feel is right, even if it is wrong
Putting things in the cloud is all the rage these day
Kia ora and welcome to New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa
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