What is it about?
Potentially inappropriate medications are high-risk medications used by Elderly. Multiple interventions are needed to stop prescribing high risk medication. Educational and Clinical pharmacist interventions play an important role to improve physicians prescribing.
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Why is it important?
The combined intervention program comprising an educational and clinical pharmacist intervention that targeted hospital physicians achieved a synergistic effect in avoiding PIMs among geriatric inpatients.
Perspectives
I am happy to write this article, because I believe that the elderly population still need more research to improve their quality of live.
Dr Muath Fahmi Najjar
King Abdullah International Medical Research Center
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This page is a summary of: The impact of a combined intervention program: an educational and clinical pharmacist’s intervention to improve prescribing pattern in hospitalized geriatric patients at King Abdulaziz Medical City in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management, March 2018, Dove Medical Press,
DOI: 10.2147/tcrm.s157469.
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