Pharmacologic issues in geriatric emergency medicine.

Pharmacologic issues in geriatric emergency medicine.

Blanda M P

Emergency medicine clinics of North America

2006

2006-05

The challenge for the practitioner is to balance incomplete evidence about efficacy of medications in frail older people against the problems related to adverse drug reactions without denying people potentially valuable pharmacotherapeutic interventions. Prescribers need to be diligent in reviewing medications periodically as well as when new medications are being considered. Review of updated explicit criteria is essential to understand and prescribe appropriately in this special population. Copyright © 2006 by Elsevier Inc.

Aged; United States; Prescriptions; Drug – Standards – United States; Emergency Medicine – United States; Health Services for the Aged – United States; Pharmacy Service – United States

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