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
A threat to doctors’ integrity: How do we know impact on family of final decision?
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A threat to doctors’ integrity: How do we know impact on family of final decision?
Wednesday 17 May 2023, 04:17 PM

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Joseph Hassan, a specialist GP from Nelson, wrote a letter to the editor
When we don’t understand something, our medical tradition advises extreme caution to ‘first do no harm’
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