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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Biggest health changes in a generation on offer in controversial report
Wednesday 1 July 2020, 06:50 AM
Martin Johnston looks at key aspects of the Health and Disability System Review – Final Report Pūrongo Watamutunga
It’s shaping up as the biggest restructuring of the health system in a generation – the kind of upheaval National began in 1992 and Labour repeated le
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