Medications and older people
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Medications and older people

Roger Watson Professor of Nursing, University of Hull

The key to benefiting older people through medication lies in the proper diagnosis of illness, correct prescription of drugs and vigilant monitoring of intended and unintended drug actions.

Nursing Older People. 12, 6, 21-25. doi: 10.7748/nop2000.09.12.6.21.c2156

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