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
GPs: Same mission, new role in clinical trials
Wednesday 10 May 2023, 03:00 AM

Specialist GPs Penny and Barney Montgomery run Optimal Clinical Trials [Image: Supplied]
Alan Perrott meets Barney and Penny Montgomery, who love both general practice and research
Everyone is in scrubs, masked up, and bustling with that purposeful intensity you feel as much as see at the pointy end of healthcare.
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Kia ora and welcome to New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa
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