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
Decisions pending: Make it, take it, fake it
Wednesday 10 April 2024, 05:00 AM

Decision-making as a precursor to decision-taking – there is a difference [Image: Varyna Bondarchuk on iStock]
Not words again! In the continuing saga that is an editor’s lot, Barbara Fountain finds herself puzzling over a politician’s choice of words, which leads down a dubious path
The emphatic use of an imperious “take” where an occasional “make” might suffice, sat uneasy with my editor sensibilities
Prime minister Christop
Kia ora and welcome to New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa
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