On Tuesday 26 June 2007 9:20 am, Ken Harvey wrote: > Long-acting benzodiazepines, amitriptyline, amiodarone, oxybutynin and > doxepin were the medicines most commonly implicated. Strategies to > support quality prescribing of medicines to the elderly must include a > focus on these medicines.
There always remains a possibility that some of these have been prescribed appropriately, in particular circumstances. As far as computer generated warnings are concerned, two keystrokes with one hand skips all the interaction warnings when I prescribe a new medication to someone who already takes >1 other medication. It takes a mere moment. jh -- Nobody listens to a word that I say And at work I'm just a foremans tool Sitting in the corner with my coffee & tray All the secretaries think I'm a fool Split Enz - Nobody Takes Me Seriously (T Finn) _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
