Medication use in aged care residents in the last year of life: A scoping review.

CONCLUSION: Number of prescriptions or blunt categorisations of medications to assess their appropriateness are unlikely to be sufficient to promote well-being and medication safety for older people in residential aged care in the final stages of life.
PMID: 32286162 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Palliative Medicine - April 13, 2020 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Aitken C, Boyd M, Nielsen L, Collier A Tags: Palliat Med Source Type: research