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Category: Main/Drug Use in Geriatric Patients Keywords: Geriatric dosing and pharmacotherapy, medicines and older people and more... Sort Links by: Title / Popularity Links currently sorted by: Geriatric Pharmacotherapy Considerations  from GlobalRPh Hits: 1193 Improving Pharmaceutical Care of the Elderly Patient with GERD  Improving Pharmaceutical Care of the Elderly Patient with GERD. CE from Pharmacy Times. CE objectives: Identify the high prevalence of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) in elderly patients. Explain the economic burden of GERD in the elderly in the United States. Understand the risk factors associated with GERD. Review the diagnosis and complications of GERD as well as the goals of therapy. Specify atypical symptoms of GERD common in the elderly patient population. Institute strategies to optimize pharmacologic therapy in elderly patients being treated for GERD (eg, proper dosing and monitoring for signs of adverse events). Hits: 38 Medication & Falls in the Elderly  Published by the Drug Information and Research centre by Brent Ruddock. It contains a table of Adverse drug effects and the medications that cause them. Hits: 1151 Medicines and older people: An Accident Waiting to Happen?  From National Prescribing Services in Australia. See also Drug Use in the Elderly Hits: 970 OTC Medication Use in Seniors  From US Pharmacist Hits: 868 Potentially Inappropriate Medications for the Elderly According to the Revised Beers Criteria  The Beers list of potentially inappropriate medication use in older adults. Published by the Duke Clinical Research Institute. Hits: 930 Prescribing benzodiazepines… ongoing dilemma for the GP  From National Prescribing Services in Australia. Focus on geriatric patient. Hits: 813 Prescribing for Older Patients  From National Prescribing Centre, UK's NHS site. Covers factors needed to be considered when using medications in geriatric patients. Hits: 887 Strategies for benzodiazepine withdrawal in seniors  From Canadian Pharmacist Association Hits: 661 Top Ten Dangerous Drug Interactions in Long-Term Care  From Multidisciplinary Medication Management (M3) Project Hits: 869

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