Progress on strategies of rational medication in older adults
10.3760/cma.j.issn.0254-9026.2016.01.025
- VernacularTitle:老年人合理用药策略的研究进展
- Author:
Mingbin DAI
;
Yang LYU
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Drug toxicity;
Drug monitoring
- From:
Chinese Journal of Geriatrics
2016;35(1):100-104
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective Irrational pharmacotherapy is a common and severe phenomenon which happened in elderly people, it easily induces adverse outcomes, for example, increasing adverse drug reaction, mortality in hospital and the cost of drugs.The geriatric irrational pharmacotherapy are caused by lots of factors, and it is a challenge to clinical works in rational and optimized pharmacotherapy because of elderly complications and multiple pharmacotherapy which faced to doctors.Practical and effective treatment strategies and interventions are keys to geriatric rational pharmacotherapy.This paper will propose various of pharmacotherapy strategies in order to promote rational pharmacotherapy for the elderly patients.
