This article, written by Sidhesh Phaldessai, provides an overview of geriatric psychopharmacology, including the epidemiology of mental health disorders in the older population, the physiological changes that occur with ageing and their impact on pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, and the use of psychotropic medications in older adults
Pharmacists duty-bound to fix prescriber mistakes
Saturday 1 October 2022, 01:30 AM
If a doctor makes a script medication error, it is a breach of the patient’s rights if the pharmacist fails to rectify it, writes non-practising legal expert and pharmacist Máté Hegedus-Gaspar in the first of two articles on this topic
Imagine you receive a prescription for warfarin 500mg once daily. Would you dispense it? Can you think of any circumstance under which you would agree