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
Hypertension not the only Whitecoat side effect with new ratings website
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Hypertension not the only Whitecoat side effect with new ratings website
Wednesday 15 August 2018, 12:00 AM

Ian Powell is executive director of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
ASMS
Senior doctors’ representative Ian Powell finds much to fault with a new website purporting to help consumers by enabling them to rate their doctor
There is a need for greater transparency about the organisation’s funding and business relationships, and mechanisms to ensure doctors were not single
Kia ora and welcome to New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa
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