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
Sometimes slowing down proves best
Wednesday 13 September 2023, 02:30 AM

Erroneous result from an online AI dermatology tool [Image: Supplied]
Richard Medlicott contemplates two different types of thinking, and puts an AI tool to the test on a lesion
Most of us have heard of the concept of fast and slow thinking, also known as system 1 or system 2 thinking.
The concept has been around for centur
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