[Medication management of hypertension and heart failure in older patients: What happens to therapeutic changes after hospitalization?]

CONCLUSIONS: Medication review performed by geriatricians and pharmacists during hospitalization resulted in 249 changes. These changes aimed at limiting iatrogenic disease, by reducing overtreatment and potentially inappropriate prescriptions. Difficulties in the patient care continuity between the hospital and ambulatory setting have been identified.
PMID: 32222286 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Annales de Cardiologie et d'Angeiologie - March 24, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: Bouterige A, Mercier J, Makaroff Z, Krolak-Salmon P, Mouchoux C, Novais T Tags: Ann Cardiol Angeiol (Paris) Source Type: research