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
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Wednesday 29 July 2020, 01:15 AM
"Working with vaccine-hesitant caregivers"
An editorial in Canadian Family Physician suggests that clinicians should put their energy into working with vaccine-hesitant caregivers (fence sitter
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References
1. https://bit.ly/2Z7mchk (Can Fam Physician 2019;65(3):159).
2. https://bit.ly/3e81G4F (Can Fam Physician 2019;65(3):175–81)