Quality use of medicines in the rural ambulant elderly: a pilot study.

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Summary

While the intervention did not reduce hospitalisation episodes and only led to a modest improvement in quality of life, the development of a mutually acceptable form of face-to-face pharmacist/GP medication review, identification of potentially serious adverse drug reactions, identified of previously unreported complementary medicine use, and enhanced GP awareness of the risks of polypharmacy were positive outcomes of the study.

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article
Published
2004-09-17
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Keywords

Medicine, Audit, Pharmacist, Quality of life (healthcare), Population

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