Department of Health
The handbook of tools is now available to support health professionals manage concurrent use of medicines and reduce the risk of harm.
It shows examples of tools across the spectrum of factors where problems of medicine use can develop, and includes tools designed to:
- reduce medicine regimen complexity
- identify non-adherence
- identify medicines considered generally inappropriate in older people
- identify medicines that may have been omitted but considered beneficial in older people
- detect medicine related side effects
- identify the potential for harm due to cumulative effects of medicine use
- support cessation of medicines
- support medication switching and tapering.
Read the new handbook of tools.
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