Medications for Older Persons: Recommendations, Harms, Evidence - Paperback
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Academic PressISBN-13:9780443290251ISBN-10:0443290253UPC:9780443290251Book Category:ScienceBook Subcategory:Life SciencesBook Topic:BiologySize:9.46 x 7.49 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.795Product ID:SC3JFJPXRJ
Medications for Older Persons: Recommendations, Harms, Evidence provides a comprehensive resource detailing the benefits of medications for older individuals. It also addresses the potential harms associated with the prescription of potentially inappropriate medications or omissions in prescribing and examines how many adverse events, rehospitalizations, and deaths can be attributed to these medications. The book opens with a summary of medications that most benefit older patients, followed by the impact of older persons' alcohol consumption, self-medication, and medication list accuracy and how these factors correlate to health outcomes. The remainder of the book is devoted to the assessment of medication groups focusing on Numbers Needed to Treat, Numbers Needed to Harm, and characteristics and numbers of adverse events. Medication groups covered include cardiovascular, central nervous system, renal, gastrointestinal, musculoskeletal, respiratory, endocrine, pain, and fall prevention.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Academic PressISBN-13:9780443290251ISBN-10:0443290253UPC:9780443290251Book Category:ScienceBook Subcategory:Life SciencesBook Topic:BiologySize:9.46 x 7.49 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.795Product ID:SC3JFJPXRJ
Thomas, Roger: - Roger E. Thomas, MD, PhD, CCFP, FCFP, MRCGP, holds a BA Honors in Economics from Cambridge, PhD in Sociology from Yale, an MD from McMaster, and practiced as a rural physician 1979 in Newfoundland. Through 1980 to 1983, Dr. Thomas performed Medical Missionary work in Malawi. Through his career, Dr. Thomas has held faculty positions at East Carolina University, Toronto, Ottawa, Newfoundland, and currently is an Emeritus Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Calgary. He has 187 peer-reviewed publications and 108 abstracts on such topics as adverse medication events on seniors' rehospitalization and death, prescribing for seniors using genomic data, evidence-based methods of deprescribing to reduce readmissions and death, total costs of seniors' care and options to finance most needed care.
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