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| Prescribing and chronic disease management | | Author(s) | Simon Hilton, Tom Fahey |
| Journal title | Geriatric Medicine, vol 33, no 10, October 2003 |
| Pages | pp 37-38, 40 |
| Keywords | Drugs ; Care homes ; Nursing homes. |
| Annotation | With an ageing population and an increasing need for long-term care for older people, appropriate prescribing is a vital component of the quality of care these patients receive. There is evidence that a lack of optimal prescribing leads to adverse drug reactions and poorer health outcomes. In this article, the authors discuss some of the ways in which this problem can be tackled successfully. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-031121202 A |
| Classmark | LLD: KW: LHB |
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