Geriatric Drug Therapy Interventions

By James W. Cooper

Medication costs and common drug-related problems, such as misapplication of therapy, medication misuse, and adverse effects, can often be avoided or reduced. Geriatric Drug Therapy Interventions will help you get better outcomes with your patients as it points out pitfalls to avoid and provides you with logical principles for administering drug therapy. Offering guidelines, advice, and gentle reminders, this book shows you the importance of properly documenting patient problems and of considering the entire medical history of your patients. It also helps you perform fall and psychoactive drug risk assessments and address underrecognized and undertreated problems such as malnutrition, depression, sensory deficits, anemia, osteoporosis, and pressure ulcers.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0789003945
• ISBN13: 9780789003942
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 8.7"