Medication costs and common drug-related problems, such as
misapplication of therapy, medication misuse, and adverse effects,
can often be avoided or reduced. Geriatric Drug Therapy
Interventions will help you get better outcomes with your patients
as it points out pitfalls to avoid and provides you with logical
principles for administering drug therapy. Offering guidelines,
advice, and gentle reminders, this book shows you the importance of
properly documenting patient problems and of considering the entire
medical history of your patients. It also helps you perform fall
and psychoactive drug risk assessments and address under-recognized
and undertreated problems such as malnutrition, depression, sensory
deficits, anemia, osteoporosis, and pressure ulcers.As Geriatric
Drug Therapy Interventions clarifies, increased consultant
pharmacist involvement in comprehensive pharmaceutical services
results in the reduction of drug-related problems and
medication-associated costs with long-term care patients. Using
this book's helpful and substantive interventions, you can improve
clinical, economic, and humanistic outcomes in your practice. For
this purpose, Geriatric Drug Therapy Interventions discusses: a
study designed to teach pharmacy students to identify, document,
solve, and prevent medication-related problems providing
patient-focused care and assuming responsibility for patient
outcomes reimbursing pharmacists for performing cognitive service
and cost-savings activities how the prevalence of drug-related
problems that influence the need for hospital and nursing home
admissions increases with age reasons for patient noncompliance
NSAID-associated gastritis, gastrointestinal bleeding, drug-induced
delirium, incontinence, and constipation why the advent of managed
care does not bode well for the overall health outcomes of the
elderlyPharmacists, physicians, and other health care providers
can't control all aspects of drug use, but there are many practical
steps you can take to help your patients use their prescriptions
appropriately. Geriatric Drug Therapy Interventions will help you
monitor the efficacy of drug therapy, guide patients who are
exasperated with being poked, prodded, and barraged with
medications, and work together to develop therapy patterns and
schedules that are effective and comfortable.
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