Pharmacologic issues in geriatric emergency medicine.
The challenge for the practitioner is to balance incomplete evidence about efficacy of medications in frail older people against the problems related to adverse drug reactions without denying people potentially valuable pharmacotherapeutic interventions. Prescribers need to be diligent in reviewing medications periodically as well as when new medications are being considered. Review of updated explicit criteria is essential to understand and prescribe appropriately in this special population.
Department of Emergency Medicine, Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, Summa Health System, 41 Arch Street, Suite 518, Akron, OH 44304, USA. blandam@summa-health.org
Michelle P
MP
Blanda
D000368:Aged; D011307:Drug Prescriptions / Q000592:standards*; D004635:Emergency Medicine; D006299:Health Services for the Aged; D006801:Humans; D010593:Pharmaceutical Services; D014481:United States