Thinus van Rensburg wrote:
Ken Harvey wrote:
[I'd be interested in whether people thought an computer alert
(generated at the time of prescribing one of these drugs in an elderly
patient) might be a useful way of addressing the problem?]
Only if the prescriber acted on it - I think the question should rather
be if the people who prescribed these items actually thought/knew they
were "possibly inappropriate"
"potentially inappropriate" applies to every drug in the pharmacopoeia
doesn't it; it all depends on indication / context / past knowledge of
individual experiences
this is a very paternalistic approach to take, and why are these drugs
listed specifically only contraindicated in veterans and their spouses?
do they have some physiology that isn't shared by non-vets ?
ash
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