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Prescribing in older people

7 February 2018 CPD

Appropriate prescribing in older people, including when to discontinue medications, NICE guidelines ...

Treatment: NICE advice questioned for frail elderly patients (Photo: Jim Varney)

GPs urged to ignore NICE diabetes advice when treating frail elderly

23 June 2015

GPs should consider stopping diabetes treatment in frail elderly patients to improve health outcomes...

Dementia: link to anticholinergic drugs (Photo: JH Lancy)

GPs 'should review anticholinergic use' to reduce dementia risk

27 January 2015

Long-term anticholinergic use is linked to higher dementia risk in older people, a study has found....

Prescribing safety in primary care

18 July 2013

Advice for GPs on how to avoid prescribing errors and improve monitoring of repeat prescriptions. By...

Journals watch: Bacterial infection, prescribing for older patients, Identifying prostate cancer risk

26 May 2013 CPD

Too busy to read all of the journals? Dr Alison Glenesk selects research papers of interest to GPs....

A vast number of drugs and foodstuffs can raise or lower INR in patients who are taking warfarin (Photograph: SPL)

Prescribing - Ensuring safe use of anticoagulants

12 October 2011

Prescribers must ensure that it is safe to issue repeat prescriptions for anticoagulants, writes Dr ...

Palliative care

9 March 2007

Contributed by Dr Amanda Free, a GP in Epsom, GP associate for the GSF programme and Macmillan GP fa...

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