A proposed stepwise approach to reducing medication errors in older people

Shahrzad Salmasi; Barbara C Wimmer; Tahir M Khan; Syed Tabish Razi Zaidi; Long Chiau Ming

doi:10.1016/j.sapharm.2017.02.015

A proposed stepwise approach to reducing medication errors in older people

Shahrzad Salmasi
, Barbara C Wimmer
, Tahir M Khan
, Syed Tabish Razi Zaidi
, Long Chiau Ming

Pharmacy

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Healthcare service providers can take pride in great advances made in medical services delivery. Unfortunately, however, there is still room for improvement in preventing medication errors (MEs) that threaten the health of patients.^1,2 Older patients perhaps might be most vulnerable to MEs. This is due to several factors including multi-morbidity, age-related changes in pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, polypharmacy, fragmentation of care, and underuse of comprehensive older peoples' assessments.³

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	207-209
Journal	Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy
Volume	14
Issue number	2
Early online date	15 Mar 2017
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sapharm.2017.02.015
Publication status	Published - 28 Feb 2018

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