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
If walls could talk: Angel’s eye view of managed isolation hotels in ‘New Zilland’
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If walls could talk: Angel’s eye view of managed isolation hotels in ‘New Zilland’
Wednesday 29 July 2020, 02:45 AM

Casper and Ocean have never stayed in a hotel and say the air conditioning affects Ocean’s allergies
JUST WONDERING
In which Lucy O’Hagan vividly imagines the Government’s isolation overseers, Megan and Digby, calling on an angel to fill them in
Hello. I am Gloria, the guardian angel. I am on duty at the Grand-not-a-Holiday-Inn, Auckland’s premier managed isolation facility. It’s been a busy
Kia ora and welcome to New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa
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